I am trying to open a local HTML-file with PhantomJS (version 1.9.2):
var page = require('webpage').create(), fs = require('fs'),
address = "/Full/Path/To/test.html";
console.log('isFile? ' + fs.isFile(address));
console.log('isReadable? ' + fs.isReadable(address));
page.open(address, function(status){
console.log('status? ' + status);
console.log(page.content)
phantom.exit();
});
First I check if I got the right path and if the file is readable using fs.isFile()
& fs.isReadable()
. Then I check whether phantomjs succeeded in opening the file (with status
). Independent of the actual contents of the file I always get:
isFile? true
isReadable? true
status? fail
<html><head></head><body></body></html>
So the file and the path seem to be okay – but PhantomJS fails to open it!
Any suggestions?
PhantomJS can open local files without any problems. The url have to follow classic Url/Uri rules, especially for a local file.
/Full/Path/To/test.html
is not valid for PhantomJS. Is it a local file or a web ressource ?
Depending of the path, just try with somethting like this :
file:///C://Full/Path/To/test.html
or if it's hosted in a web server
http://localhost/Full/Path/To/test.html
An addition to @Cybermaxs answer: If you need to convert a simple relative path test.html
to a proper URL, you can do so by something like this:
var fs = require('fs');
function getFileUrl(str) {
var pathName = fs.absolute(str).replace(/\\/g, '/');
// Windows drive letter must be prefixed with a slash
if (pathName[0] !== "/") {
pathName = "/" + pathName;
}
return encodeURI("file://" + pathName);
};
var fileUrl = getFileUrl("test.html");
Note that you can't use a solution based on file-url
because it is based on path
and process
, which do not work within PhantomJS. Fortunately, the fs
module provides similar functionality.
As of phantom 2.1.1 (possibly earlier) the method described by OP actually works as written.