Set up phantomjs driver for selenium, example

set-up-phantomjs.py

# An example showing how to set up phantomjs for use with Selenium

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities


# These arguments will be passed on the phantomjs command line
# when webdriver launches it. See the reference page at
# http://phantomjs.org/api/command-line.html for more settings.
#
# Uncomment the proxy settings and change the values appropriately
# to get phantom to use a proxy (i.e. to examine requests).
PHANTOMJS_ARGS = [
    # "--proxy=<proxy address>:<proxy port>",
    # "--proxy-type=http,https",
    "--load-images=false",
    "--ignore-ssl-errors=true",
    "--ssl-protocol=any"
]


# Set the page download timeout here
DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT = 5

def _setup_phantom_caps(self):
    """
    Creates the device capabilities structure.
    """
    dcaps = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS)
    dcaps["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = getattr(settings, "USER_AGENT")
    dcaps["phantomjs.page.settings.webSecurityEnabled"] = False
    dcaps["phantomjs.page.settings.javascriptCanOpenWindows"] = False
    dcaps["phantomjs.page.settings.javascriptCanCloseWindows"] = False
    dcaps["takesScreenshot"] = False
    return dcaps

dcaps = self._setup_phantom_caps()

# copy this list, because for some reason webdriver
# modifies the original in-memory
service_args = list(PHANTOMJS_ARGS)
log_path = "<Where the log should be>"

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(
    desired_capabilities=dcaps,
    service_args=service_args,
    service_log_path=log_path)

driver.set_page_load_timeout(DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT)