ariya/phantomjs
Scriptable Headless Browser observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
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: 5728
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1376
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
29449 stars · 5663 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit browser scriptable with JavaScript, supporting page automation, screen capture, headless web testing, and network monitoring with HAR export. Its development has been suspended, so it is effectively unmaintained.
Use cases
- run headless browser tests without a GUI
- scrape and manipulate web pages via the DOM
- take programmatic website screenshots
- monitor page loading and export HAR files
- automate performance analysis of web pages
- run functional tests with Jasmine, QUnit, or Mocha
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy test suite already built on PhantomJS
- you need a self-contained static binary with no browser dependencies on old infrastructure
When to avoid
- starting any new project - it is unmaintained and lacks modern web standards
- you need modern JavaScript/ES6+ support - use Puppeteer or Playwright instead
- you need up-to-date rendering of modern websites
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
web-scraping testing e2e-testing image-processing monitoring workflow-automation http-client web-development developer-tools testing crawlers windows bsd cli cross-platform headless-browser webkit screen-capture page-automation har discontinued javascript-scripting automation linux macos
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs · fetched 2026-08-28 · e74921d80848
- homepage: http://phantomjs.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 55a024648b0e
- site_page: https://phantomjs.org/download.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · ca951c2b6519
- site_page: https://phantomjs.org/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · a7a4c9178238
- site_page: https://phantomjs.org/api · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9f15b8d82d2c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ariya/phantomjs | main | 10 |
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