PhantomJS Pad
Dev tools
browser automation editor
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
2 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for those learning PhantomJS or rasterising SVGs
From 2 comments
This is really cool. Just getting deep in to phantomjs myself, I'm sure this will help a bit :)
angryrancor on HNphantomjs is great for rastering svgs (d3.js visualizations)
daemonk on HN
Objections
PhantomJS is falling behind and has bugs, such as webfont support
From 3 comments
The thing with phantomjs and webfonts is that it has an old webkit version which has some bugs with webfont support. Theres a branch from a phantomjs contributor on github that…
d4n3 on HNPhantomJS is falling further and further behind. It also doesn't, for example, support scripts triggered DOM events. The more time goes by, the more I'm considering removing it…
warfangle on HNI tried with typekit with no success: http://phantomjs-pad.ozaur.com/DrDvxMADoP2TdF652 I was curious with this example, as I have had zero luck getting webfonts to render using…
deanclatworthy on HN
Site overloaded, causing timeouts
From 1 comment
Looks like the site is overloaded, so a lot of times it end up in timeout problems.
jakozaur on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 1 comment
Yeah, they'll do that :) Can we download this and run it locally? Is the code open sourced somewhere?
timdorr on HN
Make it runnable locally or in Docker
From 2 comments
Yeah, they'll do that :) Can we download this and run it locally? Is the code open sourced somewhere?
timdorr on HNPut it in a Docker container! :)
zenlikethat on HN
Questions
Real use case or just fun?
From 1 comment
Neat. Did you have a real use-case for this, or just fun? I'm curious, what dependencies does it have that would make setup difficult? In the Yelp example, I was confused for a…
mmccaff on HN
Does browser view show a screenshot of the last step?
From 1 comment
Neat. Did you have a real use-case for this, or just fun? I'm curious, what dependencies does it have that would make setup difficult? In the Yelp example, I was confused for a…
mmccaff on HN
Alternatives named
Splash
From 1 comment
A shameless plug: https://github.com/scrapinghub/splash is an open source tool similar to Phantom JS, and it has an interactive web editor built-in. The concurrency model in…
kmike84 on HN
CasperJS
From 2 comments
Looks nice! I created a service called Ghost Inspector last spring that runs PhantomJS under the hood: https://ghostinspector.com/ It's not open source, but there's a free tier…
jwklemm on HNI am a big fan of CasperJS which sits atop PhantomJS. This tool certain looks like a fun way to get introduced to Phantom.
AustinScript on HN
Automately
From 1 comment
There's also Automately (http://automate.ly/) it's a pretty interesting platform and it also allows for use of browser automation but differently than PhantomJS it's a little…
tonyrice on HN
Ghost Inspector
From 1 comment
Looks nice! I created a service called Ghost Inspector last spring that runs PhantomJS under the hood: https://ghostinspector.com/ It's not open source, but there's a free tier…
jwklemm on HN
NightmareJS
From 1 comment
would love to write the script using http://www.nightmarejs.org instead ;)
pkrein on HN