# ariya/phantomjs

Scriptable Headless Browser

Repository: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/phantomjs
Homepage: http://phantomjs.org
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: phantomjs, headless, headless-browser, automation
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-11-26T19:43:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5728, "days_push": 1376, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 29449, forks 5663 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:53.482423+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, testing, e2e-testing, image-processing, monitoring, workflow-automation, http-client
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, testing, crawlers
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: headless-browser, webkit, screen-capture, page-automation, har, discontinued, javascript-scripting, automation, linux, macos

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.482423+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 2026-08-29T16:53:00.354790+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.482423+00:00, sha e74921d80848)
  - homepage: http://phantomjs.org (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:08.684763+00:00, sha 55a024648b0e)
  - site_page: https://phantomjs.org/download.html (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:08.693775+00:00, sha ca951c2b6519)
  - site_page: https://phantomjs.org/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:08.696084+00:00, sha a7a4c9178238)
  - site_page: https://phantomjs.org/api (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:08.698515+00:00, sha 9f15b8d82d2c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.