Packages

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.

Package 2: PhantomJS 2.1.1

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

Package 1: PhantomJS 1.9.8

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

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