# Medium/phantomjs

NPM wrapper for installing phantomjs

Repository: https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medium-phantomjs
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-07-23T17:35:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5105, "days_push": 2598, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1431, forks 434 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:42.449406+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, testing, e2e-testing, web-scraping
- domain: developer-tools, testing, web-development
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: phantomjs, headless-browser, npm-installer, deprecated, webkit, webdriver, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Medium/phantomjs (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.449406+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:05.291443+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.449406+00:00, sha ff42f89aa369)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/phantomjs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:42.722615+00:00, sha 848bfa5f3ed6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.