PhantomJS - Command Line Interface
PhantomJS can be executed using the keyword "phantomjs" and the name of the file. For example, "phantomjs file.js".
You can also pass arguments into "file.js" as follows −
phantomjs [options] file.js arg1 arg2 ...
Let us go through some of the options available at the command line.
| S.No |
Option & Description |
| 1 |
--help or –h
Will display all the command line options. Halts immediately and will not run the script passed.
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| 2 |
--version or –v
Prints the version of PhantomJS running. This will halt the execution of script to be run.
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| 3 |
--debug[true|false]
Prints warnings and debug messages. By default, it is set to false. You can also use [yes|no].
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| 4 |
--cookies-file = /path/to/cookies.txt
File name to store persistent cookies.
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| 5 |
--diskcache=[true|false]
Enables disk cache. It also takes values [yes|no]
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| 6 |
--disk-cahe-path
Path for disk cache.
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| 7 |
--ignore-sslerrors=[true|false]
Ignore SSL errors. For example – Expired or self-signed certificate errors. Default is false. It also takes values [yes|no].
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| 8 |
--loadimages=[true|false]
Loads all inline images. Default value is true. It also takes [yes|no].
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| 9 |
--local-storagepath=/some/path
Path to save LocalStorage content and WebSQL content.
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| 10 |
--local-storagequota=number
Maximum size to allow for data.
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| 11 |
--local-url-access
Allows use of ‘file:///’ URLs (default is true).
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| 12 |
--local-to-remote-urlaccess=[true|false]
Allows local content to access remote URL. Default is false. It also takes values [yes|no].
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| 13 |
--max-disk-cachesize=size
Limits the size of disk cache (in KB)
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| 14 |
--offline-storage-path
Specifies location for offline storage.
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| 15 |
--offline-storage-quota
Sets the maximum size of the offline storage in KB.
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| 16 |
--outputencoding=encoding
Sets the encoding used for terminal output. Default is utf-8.
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| 17 |
--proxy=address:port
Specifies the proxy server to be used (For example – proxy=192.168.1.1:8080)
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| 18 |
--proxytype=[http|socks5|none]
Specifies the type of proxy server (default is http)
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| 19 |
--proxy-auth
Authentication information for the proxy. For example –
--proxy-auth=username:password
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| 20 |
--scriptencoding=encoding
Sets the encoding used for the script. Default is utf8.
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| 21 |
--script-language
Sets the script language.
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