Phantombuster allows you to select between multiple versions of PhantomJS and CasperJS. Available modules are bundled together in what we call "packages". Each package is assigned a number that you can specify within your scripts.
Very often a script will start like this:
'use strict';
'phantombuster command: casperjs';
'phantombuster package: 2'; // use the 2nd module package (PhantomJS 2.1.1)
'phantombuster dependencies: lib-Nick-beta.coffee';
buster = require('phantombuster').create();
Nick = require('lib-Nick-beta')
nick = new Nick({
printNavigation: true,
userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246'
});
The important line here is the third one. It sets up the script's environment with a specific package.
This is the recommended package. Use it! To do so, add
'phantombuster package: 2';
at the beginning of your script.
This package was added July 18th 2016. It includes:
- PhantomJS 2.1.1 (installed from phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.7)
- CasperJS 1.1.2 (installed from casperjs@1.1.2)
- Node 6.x (installed from NodeSource setup_6.x)
Exact versions of all bundled modules:
async@2.0.0-rc.6 aws-sdk@2.4.6 axios@0.13.1 bluebird@3.4.1 babel-polyfill@6.9.1 cheerio@0.20.0 coffee-script@1.10.0 data2xml@1.2.5 deep-diff@0.3.4 easyxml@2.0.1 es6-promise@3.2.1 fast-csv@2.0.1 fs-extra@0.30.0 is-my-json-valid@2.13.1 jsdom@9.4.1 jsen@0.6.1 jsontoxml@0.0.11 jstoxml@0.2.3 linq@3.0.5 lodash@4.13.1 mime@1.3.4 mkdirp@0.5.1 moment@2.14.1 mongodb-extended-json@1.6.3 mongodb@2.2.1 mongoose@4.5.3 needle@1.0.0 node-fetch@1.5.3 once@1.3.3 papaparse@4.1.2 pluralize@3.0.0 pretty-data2@0.40.1 pretty-data@0.40.0 q@1.4.1 qs@6.2.0 request@2.73.0 resemblejs@2.2.1 through2@2.0.1 through@2.3.8 underscore@1.8.3 whatwg-fetch@1.0.0 when@3.7.7 xml2js@0.4.17 xml2json@0.9.1 xmltojson@1.1.0
This is the default package. Remove any phantombuster package directive from your script to use this package.
Alternatively, your could force the package to 1 by putting this at the beginning of your script:
'phantombuster package: 1';
but it's not necessary.
It's not recommended to use this package because it comes with old versions of PhantomJS and CasperJS.
This is the original Phantombuster package. It includes:
- PhantomJS 1.9.8 (installed from the deprecated phantomjs@1.9.20)
- CasperJS 1.1.0-beta3 (installed from the deprecated casperjs@1.1.0-beta3)
- Node 6.x (installed from NodeSource setup_6.x)
Exact versions of all bundled modules:
async@2.0.0-rc.4 aws-sdk@2.3.9 axios@0.13.1 bluebird@3.4.1 babel-polyfill@6.9.1 cheerio@0.20.0 coffee-script@1.10.0 data2xml@1.2.5 deep-diff@0.3.4 easyxml@2.0.1 es6-promise@3.2.1 fast-csv@2.0.0 fs-extra@0.30.0 is-my-json-valid@2.13.1 jsdom@9.3.0 jsen@0.6.1 jsontoxml@0.0.11 jstoxml@0.2.3 linq@3.0.5 lodash@4.13.1 mime@1.3.4 mkdirp@0.5.1 moment@2.14.1 mongodb-extended-json@1.6.3 mongodb@2.1.18 mongoose@4.5.3 needle@1.0.0 node-fetch@1.5.3 once@1.3.3 papaparse@4.1.2 pluralize@3.0.0 pretty-data2@0.40.1 pretty-data@0.40.0 q@1.4.1 qs@6.2.0 request@2.72.0 resemblejs@2.2.0 through2@2.0.1 through@2.3.8 underscore@1.8.3 whatwg-fetch@1.0.0 when@3.7.7 xml2js@0.4.16 xml2json@0.9.1 xmltojson@1.1.0