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.get('http://seleniumhq.org')
python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
browser.get('http://seleniumhq.org/')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 176, in get
self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 162, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 350, in execute
return self._request(url, method=command_info[0], data=data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 382, in _request
resp = self._conn.getresponse()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1045, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 409, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 373, in _read_status
raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine: ''
Replacing second LOC with browser = webdriver.Firefox() works fine.
I am on Ubuntu 13.10 desktop and same error occurs on Ubuntu 13.04 aswell.
Python: 2.7 PhantomJS: 1.9.2
What am I doing wrong here?