PhantomJS - Performing a series of page interactions. Code from: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/20z8N8rwITw (thanks to respective owners) Opened issue number 1 here: https://github.com/bacey/phasmine/issues/1 (phasmine does not work for me as expected) Usage: put all three files into same directory and phantomjs phantom.js

interact.js

var pageNum = 1;
function interact (page,callback_list) {


    console.log("Setting onLoadFinished");
    page.onLoadFinished = function (status) {
        // For debugging, log the results and render the page to a temp directory
        console.log (status + ":" + pageNum + " Page load complete - " +
            page.evaluate(function() {
                return document.title + " - " + document.location.href;
            })
        );
        page.render("/tmp/" + pageNum + ".png");
        pageNum++;
        // Allow elements to be clicked
        page.injectJs("simclick.js");
        console.log("about to apply callback");
        // Call interact again--pass only the functions that
        // haven't been invoked yet
        interact(page, callback_list.slice(1));
    };

    // Call the first callback in the list. It should result in page reload so the
    // above onLoadFinished gets called
    callback_list[0].apply(page);

    console.log("Return from interact");
    return;
}

phantom.js

phantom.injectJs("interact.js");
page = new WebPage()

var steps = [


    function() {
      // Open the issues list page
      this.open("http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/list");
    },
    function() {
      // Click on the details link for the last issue on the page
      // Would be nice to be able to write:
      //   click (this, '#resultstable > tbody >tr:nth-last-of-type(1) > td.id > a')
      // but I didn't figure out how
      this.evaluate(function() {simulateMouseClick('#resultstable > tbody > tr:nth-last-of-type(1) > td.id > a')})
    },
    function() {
      last_update = this.evaluate(function() {
          // Creation date or date of most recent comment
          n = document.querySelectorAll('.author > .date, .issuecomment > .date');
          return n.item(n.length-1).getAttribute('title');
      });
      console.log ("Last updated " + last_update);
      phantom.exit();
    }
];
interact(page, steps)

simclick.js

function simulateMouseClick(selector) {
    var targets = document.querySelectorAll(selector),
        evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'),
        i, len;
        
    evt.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);

    for ( i = 0, len = targets.length; i < len; ++i ) {
        targets[i].dispatchEvent(evt);
    }
}