PhantomJS keeping cache

Question

I am using phantom js to test accessing a webpage, this runs approximatley 350 times in the space of about half an hour. I am then running webalizer against the server to te

Answer 1

Run page.clearMemoryCache(); before page.open can clean cache.

It metioned in this issue, and it works fine in PhantomJS 2.0.

Answer 2

There is no way to clear cache (memory or disk). An issue is open on github here since a few months and I still hope this will be released in the future.

This only way is to start a new instance of phantomjs with no disk cache.

PhantomJs is a headless browser, so please consider a PhantomJS instance as an unique user. Does opening 100 times the same web page in your favorite browser will downlaod 100 times every resources of your web page ? No, this is exactly how PhantomJS works.