Installing PhantomJS on Ubuntu 22.10

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:30:03 +0000

PhantomJS is a headless browser, which means it runs without a graphical interface and lets you automate web page interactions through scripting. I needed it for some automated testing at work and ran into a few things worth writing down, mostly because half the guides out there are either outdated or assume you already know what you’re doing.

The version we’re installing is 2.1.1, which is the last release. The project has been unmaintained since 2017, but it still does what it needs to do for basic scraping and screenshot tasks.

Phantomjs on Shafiq Alibhai

Installing PhantomJS on Ubuntu 22.10