How to install PhantomJS for use with Python Selenium on the Raspberry Pi?

Ok I will start with the solution, there is a version compiled for arm here phantomjs-linux-armv6l, on the pi run the following commands:

$ cd /tmp$ wget https://github.com/aeberhardo/phantomjs-linux-armv6l/archive/master.zip$ unzip master.zip$ cd phantomjs-linux-armv6l-master$ bunzip2 *.bz2 && tar xf *.tar

I added:

sudo cp phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-armv6l/bin/phantomjs  /usr/bin

So phantomjs will be on your path.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ phantomjs --version1.9.0pi@raspberrypi ~ $ phantomjsphantomjs> 

Now we have that done, time to test:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat test.py#!/usr/bin/pythonfrom selenium import webdriverdriver = webdriver.PhantomJS()driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36314771/how-to-install-phantomjs-for-use-with-python-selenium-on-the-raspberry-pi/36388824#36388824')a = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="question-header"]/h1/a')print(a.text)print(driver)pi@raspberrypi ~ $ python test.py How to install PhantomJS for use with Python Selenium on the Raspberry Pi?<selenium.webdriver.phantomjs.webdriver.WebDriver (session="b184e110-f9c4-11e5-aede-7f5c42f062d7")>

From the faq. Starting with PhantomJS 1.5, it is pure headless and there is no need to run X11/Xvfb anymore..

I tried using xvfb-run and exporting the display, using a shell script in init.d to start xvfb, I got a little further being able to run iceweasel from bash headless no problem but still no cigar when it came to phantomjs and selenium. I think it may just come down to an incompatibility between selenium and the version of phantomjs, regardless having 1.9.0 and real headless browsing is a lot more desirable.

I was in the middle of setting up a toolchain and was going to try to compile myself when I found the link above, for anyone interested in cross compiling, crosstools-ng makes life a lot easier.

I am running an arm6, there is also a compiled version for arm7 using 2.0.0, the dependencies are:

sudo apt-get install flex bison gperf ruby perl libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libX11-dev libxext-dev

The install procedure, I have extracted the binary to dropbox:

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/epj1rji9d239dco/phantomjschmod +x phantomjssudo cp phantomjs /usr/bin

The original github link is phantomjs-2.0.0-armv7

Here's how I did it :

For 64-bit system, download phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 (12.6 MB).For 32-bit system, download phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-i686.tar.bz2 (12.9 MB).Step 1> $ wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2Step 2> $ tar -xvf phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2Step 3> $ cd phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64Step 4> $ cd binStep 5> $ sudo cp phantomjs /usr/binTo check phantomjs installed properly perform the following step : Step 6> $ phantomjs -hTo install the dependencies on Red Hat based systems:Step 7> $ sudo yum install fontconfig freetype libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 libstdc++.so.6

Download this phantomjs file https://drive.google.com/open?id=1x063Krw6mZkRYW4K238a3EyRdklj5Evj

Replace to needed folder.

Give 777 chmod:chmod 777 phantomjs

And try to use.

For Grafana - phantomjs file must be in a folder: /usr/share/grafana/tools/phantomjs/.

This binary file work to me on Banana pi M3 Debian 9. Architecture: arm armv7l. Kernel 4.20.7-sunxi