phantomjs not waiting for “full” page load

Question

I\'m using PhantomJS v1.4.1 to load some web pages. I don\'t have access to their server-side, I just getting links pointing to them. I\'m using obsolete version of Phantom

Answer 1

This is an old question, but since I was looking for full page load but for Spookyjs (that uses casperjs and phantomjs) and didn't find my solution, I made my own script for that, with the same approach as the user deemstone . What this approach does is, for a given quantity of time, if the page did not receive or started any request it will end the execution.

On casper.js file (if you installed it globally, the path would be something like /usr/local/lib/node_modules/casperjs/modules/casper.js) add the following lines:

At the top of the file with all the global vars:

var waitResponseInterval = 500
var reqResInterval = null
var reqResFinished = false
var resetTimeout = function() {}

Then inside function "createPage(casper)" just after "var page = require('webpage').create();" add the following code:

 resetTimeout = function() {
     if(reqResInterval)
         clearTimeout(reqResInterval)

     reqResInterval = setTimeout(function(){
         reqResFinished = true
         page.onLoadFinished("success")
     },waitResponseInterval)
 }
 resetTimeout()

Then inside "page.onResourceReceived = function onResourceReceived(resource) {" on the first line add:

 resetTimeout()

Do the same for "page.onResourceRequested = function onResourceRequested(requestData, request) {"

Finally, on "page.onLoadFinished = function onLoadFinished(status) {" on the first line add:

 if(!reqResFinished)
 {
      return
 }
 reqResFinished = false

And that's it, hope this one helps someone in trouble like I was. This solution is for casperjs but works directly for Spooky.

Good luck !