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Custom headers in Phantomjs Selenium WebDriver


The latest version (1.9.1) of PhantomJS is release Jun/5/2013. The pull request is merged Jun/23/2013.

If you are using 1.9.1 version of PhantomJS, custom headers will not work.

You have to build phantomjs yourself or wait until phantomjs merge ghostdriver changes and release new version.

  • Clone PhantomJS repository
  • Clone ghostdriver repository
  • copy ghostdriver/src/* to phantomjs/src/ghostdriver recursively
  • build phantomjs

Using newly build phantomjs I got following result:

from selenium import webdriverwebdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.Accept-Language'] = 'ru-RU'driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()driver.get('http://httpbin.org/headers')print(driver.page_source)

...{  "headers": {    "Connection": "close",    "Host": "httpbin.org",    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",    "Accept-Language": "ru-RU",    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/1.10.0 (development) Safari/534.34",    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"  } ...

UPDATE

Use PhantomJS 1.9.2+.


I write a full example to set all headers , window size and proxy in selenium phantomjs:

from selenium import webdriverdef init_phantomjs_driver(*args, **kwargs):    headers = { 'Accept':'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',        'Accept-Language':'zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3',        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0',        'Connection': 'keep-alive'    }    for key, value in headers.iteritems():        webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.{}'.format(key)] = value    webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36'    driver =  webdriver.PhantomJS(*args, **kwargs)    driver.set_window_size(1400,1000)    return driverdef main():    service_args = [        '--proxy=127.0.0.1:9999',        '--proxy-type=http',        '--ignore-ssl-errors=true'        ]    driver = init_phantomjs_driver(service_args=service_args)    driver.get('http://cn.bing.com')

Note:

userAgent is set in phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent instead of phantomjs.page.customHeaders