# johntitus/node-horseman

Run PhantomJS from Node

Repository: https://github.com/johntitus/node-horseman
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-horseman
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-06-13T08:51:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4328, "days_push": 2272, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1485, forks 121 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:51.437122+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library providing a chainable, Promise-based API for controlling the PhantomJS headless browser, supporting page navigation, form interaction, and multi-tab browsing. It is no longer maintained, with maintainers recommending Puppeteer or Nightmare instead.

## Use cases
- scrape web pages from node
- automate form filling and clicking in a headless browser
- take screenshots of web pages
- run headless browser tests
- extract text or count elements on a page
- open multiple browser tabs concurrently

## When to choose
- you are locked into legacy PhantomJS-based infrastructure
- maintaining an old codebase that already uses node-horseman

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is officially unsupported
- you need modern browser support - use Puppeteer or Playwright
- you need active maintenance or security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, web-scraping, testing
- domain: web-development, crawlers
- platform: -
- tags: headless-browser, phantomjs, browser-automation, scraping, deprecated, automation, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- johntitus/node-horseman (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.437122+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 2026-08-30T04:33:56.383476+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/johntitus/node-horseman (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.437122+00:00, sha 758c50cf427c)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/node-horseman (fetched 2026-08-29T11:40:32.060250+00:00, sha 126ff25680c8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.