PhantomJS returning empty web page (python, Selenium)

I was facing the same problem and no amount of code to make the driver wait was helping.
The problem is the SSL encryption on the https websites, ignoring them will do the trick.

Call the PhantomJS driver as:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true', '--ssl-protocol=TLSv1'])

This solved the problem for me.

You need to wait for the page to load. Usually, it is done by using an Explicit Wait to wait for a key element to be present or visible on a page. For instance:

from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWaitfrom selenium.webdriver.common.by import Byfrom selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC# ...browser.get("https://www.whatever.com")wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.content")))html_source = browser.page_source# ...

Here, we'll wait up to 10 seconds for a div element with class="content" to become visible before getting the page source.

Additionally, you may need to ignore SSL errors:

browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap, service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])

Though, I'm pretty sure this is related to the redirecting issues in PhantomJS. There is an open ticket in phantomjs bugtracker:

• PhantomJS does not follow some redirects

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true', '--ssl-protocol=TLSv1'])

This worked for me