Can't run PhantomJS in python via Selenium

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I have been trying to run PhantomJS via selenium for past 3 days and have had no success. So far i have tried installing PhantomJS via npm, building it from source, installing via apt-get and downloading prebuilt executable and placing it in /usr/bin/phantomjs. Every time I was able to run this example script loadspeed.js : ``` var page = require('webpage').create(), system = require('system'), t, address; if (system.args.length === 1) { console.log('Usage: loadspeed.js <some URL>'); phantom.exit(); } t = Date.now(); address = system.args[1]; page.open(address, function (status) { if (status !== 'success') { console.log('FAIL to load the address'); } else { t = Date.now() - t; console.log('Loading time ' + t + ' msec'); } phantom.exit(); }); ``` and run it with 'phantomjs test.js http://google.com' and it worked just as it should. but running PhantomJS via selenium in this small python script produces errors: ``` from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.PhantomJS() browser.g…

Accepted Answer

There seems to be some issue introduced in newer Selenium, see

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6690

I got a bit further using by using

```
pip install selenium==2.37
```

Avoids the stack trace above. Still having problems with driver.save_screenshot('foo.png') resulting in an empty file though.

Can't run PhantomJS in python via Selenium

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