How to install PhantomJS on Windows

Download the PhantomJS binary for Windows from the official website: http://phantomjs.org/download.html

1. Extract the downloaded zip file to a folder on your system. For example, you can extract it to the "C:\phantomjs" folder.

2. Add the PhantomJS executable to the system path. This allows you to run PhantomJS from any location on your system.

   • Go to "Control Panel" > "System and Security" > "System" > "Advanced system settings" > "Environment Variables"

   • Under "System Variables" scroll down and find the "Path" variable, then click on "Edit"

   • Click on "New" and add the path to your PhantomJS executable: "C:\phantomjs\bin"

   • click OK

3. Verify the installation by opening a Command Prompt window and running:

phantomjs --version

It should display the version of PhantomJS that you have installed.

5. If you are using PhantomJS for web scraping, you may need to install additional libraries such as beautifulsoup4 and requests.

You can install them via pip

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests

Note:

• PhantomJS 2.1.1 is not the latest version, it's not recommended to use it for production and security reasons, also it's not supported by the community anymore.

• You need to have Python installed on your machine to be able to use pip commands.

• You can also install other extension that support PhantomJS like slimerjs or triflejs