Starting phantomJS from a script in a cronjob

Question

I\'m running a python script through a cronjob. I have a virtual environment and in the cronjob I\'m running it through this virtual environment. When I run the script norma

Answer 1

As an alternative to accepted answer, you can add the following line at the 1st line of crontab:

PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/phantomjs

which specifies the path of PhantomJS before running cron tasks.

Answer 2

As phantom is probably installed in /usr/local/bin, you should add that dir to PATH in your crontab. The following should do the trick:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

Answer 3

that did the trick for me:

#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
/usr/bin/phantomjs /home/pi/test.js