PhantomJS usage in TypeScript ( Node.js )

phantomjs-example.ts

// Usage: 
//
// npm install phantom @types/phantom --save
// tsc --target "es6" ./phantomjs-example.ts
// node phantomjs-example.js
//

import * as phantom from "phantom";

async function getPageContent(url: string) {

    const instance: phantom.PhantomJS = await phantom.create();
    const page: phantom.WebPage = await instance.createPage();
    const status: string = await page.open(url);
    const content = await page.property('content');
    console.log(content);
    await instance.exit();

}

getPageContent("http://github.com");

Hi! im not able to run the js with node .It is giving me this error
/Users/p0m00hm/Documents/typeScriptTest/phantomjs-example.js:9
import * as phantom from "phantom";
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import
at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:393:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:150:9)

You have to transpile TS to JS first. You can do that with "tsc".

1. Transpile TypeScript file to JavaScript

tsc phantomjs-example.ts

2. Run JavaScript

node phantomjs-example.js

Thanks for your snippets.

btw, you can add the ts-node to run the .ts file directly.

ts-node phantomjs-example.ts