Medium/phantomjs
NPM wrapper for installing phantomjs observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5105
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2598
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1431 stars · 434 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
An NPM package (phantomjs-prebuilt) that downloads and installs a blessed version of the PhantomJS headless WebKit browser and exposes its binary path and helper methods for Node.js. It is deprecated because PhantomJS development itself has been suspended.
Use cases
- install phantomjs binary via npm
- run headless webkit scripts from node
- launch phantomjs with webdriver for selenium tests
- spawn phantomjs from a node script
- scrape web pages with a headless browser
When to choose
- you must maintain a legacy project already depending on phantomjs-prebuilt
- you need a pinned, reproducible phantomjs binary install in an old CI setup
When to avoid
- starting any new project - phantomjs is unmaintained and deprecated
- modern headless browser testing - use puppeteer or playwright instead
- you need current web standards support
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
developer-tools testing e2e-testing web-scraping developer-tools testing web-development cross-platform cli phantomjs headless-browser npm-installer deprecated webkit webdriver nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs · fetched 2026-08-28 · ff42f89aa369
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/phantomjs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 848bfa5f3ed6
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Medium/phantomjs | main | 10 |
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