Installing PhantomJS on Mac

Question

I'm trying to install PhantomJS on my Mac (Yosemite).

I did the following:

npm install phantomjs

Then I did:

npm install phantomjs-prebuilt

Both of which appear in my node_modules. But when I try to run phantomjs --versionI get

   -bash: phantomjs: command not found

Also tried installing the binary from the downloads website, but nothing. What am I missing? End goal is to use casperjs but currently casper is asking

Fatal: [Errno 2] No such file or directory; did you install phantomjs?

I thought I did....?

score 71 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 08 '19 at 20:13

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If you are using Homebrew, you can type:

brew tap homebrew/cask
brew cask install phantomjs

edited Mar 08 '19 at 20:13

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answered Sep 21 '17 at 09:13

Vladtn

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It was migrated from homebrew/core to homebrew/cask. You can access it again by running: brew tap homebrew/cask And then you can install it by running: brew cask install phantomjs – ran632 Oct 04 '18 at 14:41
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It reminded me to use `brew install --cask phantomjs`. – SparkAndShine Jan 27 '21 at 09:49

score 40 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '16 at 16:17

Download phantomjs latest version (ex: phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip) from http://phantomjs.org/download.html
Extract it to some path(ex: ~/Desktop/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx)
Run this command on terminal - sudo ln -n ~/Desktop/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/
Launch phantomjs from the terminal by command: phantomjs
Check phantomjs version by command: phantomjs -v
Check the phantomjs path by command: which phantomjs

cgnorthcutt · Answer 3 · 2021-03-20T12:19:45.510

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The accepted answer is outdated. On Mac, using Homebrew, type:

brew tap homebrew/cask
brew cask install phantomjs

The first step may not be necessary for some MacOS versions.

For newer versions of cask (2021 and later), use

brew install --cask phantomjs

edited Mar 20 '21 at 12:19

answered Nov 14 '18 at 20:46

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First it asks for > brew tap homebrew/cask > then your answer. At least for High Sierra and Mojave. – norcal johnny Dec 29 '18 at 06:10
Here updated version of cask. brew install --cask phantomjs – Jamil Bashir Mar 19 '21 at 11:38

score 18 · Answer 4 · answered May 04 '16 at 16:05

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You need to add phantomjs binary to your PATH. You can do this either by modifying the environment variable or by symlinking the binary to for example /usr/local/bin

For example, if you want to symlink the binary:

cd $HOME
curl -O https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip
ln -s $HOME/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

or if you want to modify the PATH environment variable:

cd $HOME
curl -O https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip

and add this line to this file: ~/.bash_profile:

export PATH=$HOME/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx/bin:$PATH

and then run:

source ~/.bash_profile

answered May 04 '16 at 16:05

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why don't they make a proper installer? – SuperUberDuper Apr 11 '17 at 12:55
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Same for windows as well. PITA for newcomers – Rippo Oct 06 '17 at 06:36
I was not able to unzip `phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip`. @Godraude – alper Jan 23 '18 at 06:38
Has anyone managed to download and unzip the latest macosx phantomjs package? – zevij Jan 28 '18 at 17:19

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 17 '17 at 10:17

Shouldn't you be installing phantomjs globally?

npm install -g phantomjs

Since you are installing it locally, the command -

phantomjs -v

would not work everywhere.

You can check the difference between local install and global install here: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 28 '18 at 17:33

After a lot of digging I found that on on High-Sierra old versions of phantomjs (<2.0) would not work.

Also, the zip file via the phantomjs download page is a faulty one.

If you need a new phantom, just go to this page and download phantomjs 2.1.1 (or later).

score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 19 '21 at 11:39

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for Mac BigSur

brew tap homebrew/cask
brew install --cask phantomjs

answered Mar 19 '21 at 11:39

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