First, install or update to the latest system software.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev
Install these packages needed by PhantomJS to work correctly.
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
Get it from the PhantomJS website.
or (20-12-2018 versiyon)
https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
cd ~
export PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64"
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
Once downloaded, move Phantomjs folder to /usr/local/share/ and create a symlink:
sudo mv $PHANTOM_JS /usr/local/share
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin
Now, It should have PhantomJS properly on your system.
phantomjs --versionWeb capture
Unfortunately, that is not possible using just the PhantomJS command line. You have to use a Javascript file to actually accomplish anything with PhantomJS.
Here is a very simple version of the script you can use
Code mostly copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/12469284/4499924
printSource.js
var system = require('system');
var page = require('webpage').create();
// system.args[0] is the filename, so system.args[1] is the first real argument
var url = system.args[1];
// render the page, and run the callback function
page.open(url, function () {
// page.content is the source
console.log(page.content);
// need to call phantom.exit() to prevent from hanging
phantom.exit();
});To print the page source to standard out.
phantomjs printSource.js http://todomvc.com/examples/emberjs/
To save the page source in a file
phantomjs printSource.js http://todomvc.com/examples/emberjs/ > ember.html