Phantomjs Alternatives

phantomjs reviews and mentions

• XZ: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024

  The points you make aren't unreasonable.

  It is necessary to establish clear boundaries of what can and can be provided by the maintainers. If not done at an earlier stage of the project, the support burden becomes too much to bear at which point the maintainer transfers ownership, and the project suffers from catastrophic consequences such as the xz backdoor we're talking about here, or other cases where the project mostly stalls and serves as an ego-boosting platform for the new maintainer, as was the case with PhantomJS[6].

  This can also happen in your life, where a "friend" sees that you possess a certain skill, and then gradually tries to push an inordinate amount of their personal work related to this field onto you.

  Personally, I think it's best to use an approach with extremely clear communication as to what the maintainer can and cannot provide. This can be seen, for example, in yt-dlp[1], where the consumer is clearly informed upfront that not providing detailed information as requested will lead them to block said consumer; or sqlite where their position regarding contributed patches[2] and support[3] is similarly made clear.

  Having a shouty BDFL like Torvalds can also help improve code quality[4] and questionable contributions[5], though it is better that the shouty BDFL makes statements that are professional and do not show as much aggression; so for example, "Mauro, shut the fuck up"[7] would become "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace."

  [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/new?assignees=&label...

  [2] https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

  [3] https://www.sqlite.org/support.html

  [4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/linux_6_8_rc2/

  [5] https://cse.umn.edu/cs/linux-incident

  [6] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14541

  [7] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

• Show HN: Generate a concatenated file of all CSS used on a given website
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2023

  Last commit was in 2019, and it uses PhantomJS to query a page, which shutdown development in 2018

  https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/15344

• youtube bandwidth throttled for cloud addresses?
  1 project | /r/youtubedl | 18 May 2023

  Install Phantomjs and see if that improves things.

• How to Bypass Cloudflare in 2023: The 8 Best Methods
  4 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023

  Automated Browser Detection. Cloudflare queries the browser for properties that only exist in automated web browser environments. For example, the existence of the window.document.__selenium_unwrapped or window.callPhantom property indicates the usage of Selenium and PhantomJS, respectively. For obvious reasons, you're getting blocked if this is detected.

• Ask HN: What's the best way to get all the HTML from a JavaScript site?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023

  I know there is https://phantomjs.org/ but is there something else people use these days?

  The issue is some websites curl works fine to get all the rendered html, but some you don't get any content without a javascript engine.

• Detecting PhantomJS headless browsers
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 18 Jan 2023

  Despite the popularity of Puppeteer and Headless Chrome, my team of threat researchers and I wondered, to what extent PhantomJS was still being used by bot developers. In this post, we share how we identified traffic associated with PhantomJS, the types of attacks performed, and its use in comparison to Puppeteer Extra Stealth.

• How to make a SPA SEO crawlable?
  1 project | /r/codehunter | 11 Jul 2022

  I've been working on how to make a SPA crawlable by google based on google's instructions. Even though there are quite a few general explanations I couldn't find anywhere a more thorough step-by-step tutorial with actual examples. After having finished this I would like to share my solution so that others may also make use of it and possibly improve it further. I am using MVC with Webapi controllers, and Phantomjs on the server side, and Durandal on the client side with push-state enabled; I also use Breezejs for client-server data interaction, all of which I strongly recommend, but I'll try to give a general enough explanation that will also help people using other platforms.

• Malware/Virus protection?
  3 projects | /r/openSUSE | 21 Jun 2022

  Regarding youtube-dl, I remember someone mentioning they needed an external helper program called phantomjs to download from some sites. I really wouldn't recommend using phantomjs as it hasn't been updated since 2018 and I see it has known vulnerabilities too.

• Building A Serverless Screenshot Service with Lambda
  4 projects | dev.to | 23 May 2022

  For this project we will need some extra binaries ( PhantomJS in particular) to take the screenshots. We’ll also use ImageMagick, but that is provided by AWS by default in the Lambda image, so we don’t package it separately.

• yt-dlp release 2022.04.08
  3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 8 Apr 2022

  ERROR: [iq.com] apvtge3eng: PhantomJS executable not found in PATH, download it from http://phantomjs.org

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