CasperJS Google Group

How to take a screenshot when resources never load

toph...@gmail.com (cjr) — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:36:16 UT

Example url
is [link]
I want to take a screenshot of this site, but even when I load it in chrome
the spinner never stops spinning, some external resource never gets loaded.
Is there a way I can force casper to capture the site after say 15

Re: [casperjs] Verbose mode with testing ?

nico...@perriault.net (Nicolas Perriault) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:47:28 UT

Set casper.options.verbose and casper.options.logLevel

As of 1.1, you can also use the casper test --direct and --log-level options

--
Nicolas Perriault
[link]
Phone: +33 (0) 660 92 08 67

Improvement proposal: support of SlimerJS

ljouann...@gmail.com (Laurent Jouanneau) — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:22:59 UT

Hello,
I'm developping a new scriptable browser, SlimerJS, similar to PhantomJS,
but based on Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox. It will allow to do
tests on your website with Gecko/Firefox, like you do with PhantomJS. And
with CasperJS of course :)
[link]
The PhantomJS API is not fully implemented yet into SlimerJS, but we can do

Integrate Casper with ySlow

iroy2...@gmail.com (Roy Yu) — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:59:42 UT

I know there is a ySlow script for phantomJS, does anyone know if there is
any similar in Casper?
Thanks

Unreliable click behaviour for 'styled' checkboxes

bjo...@wilmsmann.de (Björn Wilmsmann) — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:22:09 UT

A web app I'm testing with CasperJS uses jqTransform (
[link] ) for styling checkboxes by
adding div overlays to checkbox elements.
Several of those 'styled' checkboxes have an onClick event that activates
further elements on the page. Though this certainly is a bit of a hack it

using xpath document.querySelector

hsn.ela...@gmail.com (darker-fear) — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:17:25 UT

Hello
i don't know if someone tested xpath with querySelector, but it doesnt work
with me
document.querySelector('plop') .textContent = 'test'; // This one Work
document.querySelector(x('//*[ @id="plop"]')).textContent = 'test'; // This
one not Working
Any ideas ?

Trouble splitting CasperJS tests

shubham.jai...@gmail.com (Shubham Jain) — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:02:00 UT

So guys, I am really stuck at this one. I posted the question on SO but so
far, no help.
[link]
It is really confusing, how to split tests in Casper JS? Just put them in
same folder? How is then order of tests determined?

casperjs not going to next page

will...@gmail.com (Rick) — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:42:28 UT

I'm just beginning with casperjs and js trying to get it to navigate to a
new page.
There are multiple similar links on the page that look like this:
<a href="#" onclick="GoToPage(1)">2</a>
<a href="#" onclick="GoToPage(2)">2</a>
<a href="#" onclick="GoToPage(3)">2</a>

localStorage persists after evaluating localStorage.clear();

lh2olge...@gmail.com (Juan Carlos Alonso) — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:38:14 UT

I'm having this weird issue, when my app performs a login and adds data to
the localStorage, the next time I run the tests the data is still there, I
tried performing a:
casper.evaluate(function() {
But the values are not erased. This only happens with keys created by the
app. if try to reset the value of the keys they won't change.

Newbie question

pjcmvang...@gmail.com (Peter van Gils) — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:48:23 UT

Hi everyone,
I am trying to scrape a Dutch genealogy website. The end result should be
that I start with one person and then keep on scraping search results until
there is nothing left to find. Ok, that's Nirvana..
For now I have managed to get to the advanced search page, enter the
lastname and firstname of my trial person (my grandfather, who is

Text not on page even though this.waitForText(text) worked.

will...@gmail.com (Rick) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:11:48 UT

As one of several steps I have this:
casper.then(
function() {
this.clickLabel('View New Content', 'a');
this.waitForText('Explore content');
fs.write('page-3.html', this.page.content, 'w');
}
);
This succeeds with no errors or warnings and continues to a run step and

form fill() a checkbox in an MVC app

richard.bo...@gmail.com (Richard Bogle) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:52:50 UT

Hello All,
I'm new to CasperJS so I thought I'd better check my understanding here.
I've a form to fill in, a login form, that has a checkbox that needs
ticking. I found that casper.fill() wasn't setting it. Looking at the
source of the page made me think my MVC was all wrong. ASP.NET MVC produced

Why does this fail?

thomas.lehmann.priv...@googlemail.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:01:04 UT

/**
* @author Thomas Lehmann
* @file Dummy.js
*/
var casper = require('casper').create();
casper.start("[link]", function() {
this.test.info('Current location is ' + this.getCurrentUrl());
var elements = document.querySelectorAll("div ");
console.log(elements.length);

Checking for new entry in a table?

thomas.lehmann.priv...@googlemail.com — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:39:57 UT

After successfully creating a new todo item by jasperjs
navigating back to the main page I would like to verify
that the new item is in the list (table).
What would be the best way to do it?
My thoughts: I don't know the id of the new record but
I know the values I have set when using "fill".
What I'm searching for is a <td class="title">Creating a new todo

get current page contentType

fkh...@gmail.com (fk hb) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:19:56 UT

Hi,
I'd like to do different actions based on the contentType of the page.
I used currentResponse.contentType but it did not work as expected if there
is a redirect. I get the contentType before redirection.
I endend up using casper.resources[casper.resour ces.length-1].contentType.
Is this ok. Is there a better option?

At evaluation phase...

thomas.lehmann.priv...@googlemail.com — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:44:24 UT

I'm relative new to web development just written a
a small todo manager locally with php running as a server.
Somewhere reading about casperjs I started to test this
but unfortunately running in a problem which should not
be as it is from the introduction part from casperjs ....
Here we go:
I'm running on Windows XP with casperjs 1.0.2 and

Scrape attempt with ASPX and click not triggering onClick

erikpet...@gmail.com (Erik Peterson) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:46:24 UT

I'm realizing that the group here may have more up to date help/information
on getting CasperJS working, as opposed to StackOverflow.
[link]
Target Site has a radio button within a form.. and when executing click I

evaluate() modifying global variable

bird0...@gmail.com (casper user) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:20:48 UT

I'm new to CasperJS and I'm having issues with the evaluate() function. I
have the following sample code:
var results = []; // a global var
var links = [link1, link2 ,....]; //a list of urls
var current = 0;
function search(url){
this.start(url, function(){
*results = this.evaluate(function() { *

How to use the phantomjs example netsniff.js inside casperjs?

millis...@gmail.com (millisami r) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:11:17 UT

Hi,
This eg from phantomjs at
[link] works
to get the har file.
But since I'm using casperjs, how can I port or use that script within
casperjs ?

disabling loading of third party javascripts

nos...@gmail.com (Marcelo Barbudas) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:12:13 UT

Hi.
Is there a way to disable the loading of third party javascripts (like
googleads, analytics, etc)? Either a solution that would disable all of
them or something where I could manually enter the urls would be OK.
-M.

Form submission weirdness

thomas.om...@gmail.com (Thomas Omans) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:15:02 UT

Hi all,
It seems casperjs has some strange behavior around form submission.
Specifically I'm trying to use 'casper.fill' to submit a form with some
data.
The code is pretty generic:
casper.start(host + '/login', function(response) {
this.test.assertHttpStatus(200 , 'Login page loaded succesfully');

how to use casperjs to literately search keyword by google

inmant...@gmail.com (tang inman) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:41:26 UT

I am new to casperjs but find it is very useful to do something
automatically.My problem is that I want to use the casperjs to get the
urls returned by google. firstly I set a array consisting of keywords
to search.
then I try to combine the googlelinks.js and each.js in the folder of
samples to create a runnable code but I find the getLinks function

Newbie question - Problem with getAttribute

elias.nogue...@gmail.com (Elias Nogueira) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:13:47 UT

Hello guys

I'm trying to get an input value (result of a sum in two anothers inputs)
but always the return is empty.

I captured a screenshot and I can see the value on the input, but I canno
get the value. I able to get value from another inputs.

Any ideas?

*var casper = require('casper').create({

Abort resource loading successfully done with pull request #402

olivierloy...@gmail.com (Olivier LOYNET) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:05:57 UT

My initial goal was to don't send any information to Google Analytics when
I crawl a page.
With your proposal (n1k0) on this new feature in PhantomJS 1.9
([link])
I've found this pull request from cbosco and it works fine
([link])

CSV file download from button click through POST request

venkates...@gmail.com (pilatus) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:16:54 UT

Hi.
I want to download a CSV file, it is generated on a button click through a
POST request. I researched to my best on casperJs and phantomJS forums and
returned empty handed. It is too hard to believe that it is not supported.
is there any nice trick though? pleas help
Thanks,

Capture pdf

nmusakhan...@gmail.com (casper11) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:50:25 UT

How do I capture a pdf file content via Casper. I end up with blank when I
do in an ordinary way
casper.start(pathToPdf,functio n(){
capture('pdf.png');

phantom.casperPath relative path

maurotor...@gmail.com (Mauro Torres) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:08:28 UT

so my code is
var fs = require("fs");
console.log fs.workingDirectory
and I run the code from console like this:
chebyte@MacBook-Pro-de-mauro ~/garbage/phanthomjs$ phantomjs timeout.coffee
Can't open 'timeout.coffee'
any idea?
note: I'm using phanthomjs for run casperjs cause then I need run this with

Connecting to Karma runner

dave.m...@gmail.com (David Marr) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:15:07 UT

Hi-
I was wondering how I could use casper to open a karma runner
([link]) and determine if the tests pass or not.
It seems the pass/fails are written to console (i am using jasmine) and i
would like to be able to have sauce labs connect to this page and run for
multiple devices.

Capture dynamic images with Caperjs and For-loop

elli...@gmail.com (David Bigsbe) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:24:05 UT

I've now spent two days working on a piece of code that does almost what I
want but isn't quite there. I would not be asking for help here if I
thought the answer was within my grasp. I'm attempting to test a news feed
project by capturing new images from a test web site.
Right now, I've got the following code downloading the main image from a

Unable to use casper.log() statements in test mode?

m...@lapora.org (imagreenplant) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:39:33 UT

Hello there. I am attempting to use the logging functionality of casperjs.
I am able to use it when I run a scripts with casperjs. However, I am
unable to make use of the log functions when I am using "casperjs test". * Is
this expected, or am I missing something?*
Scenario 1 (shows log statements):

passing an object as an argument to casper.evaluate

venkates...@gmail.com (pilatus) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:14:43 UT

Hello,
I am trying to pass a file system, file object as an argument to evaluate
method. But it always comes as undefined. is passing an object to evaluate
like this is not correct? Below is my code.
fs = require('fs');
resultFileName = 'test.dat'
this.evaluate(function(fs, resultFileName, storeData) {

Setting radio button with Casperjs

kotot...@gmail.com — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:17:35 UT

Hello,
I'm trying to modify a radio button with CasperJS but for whatever reason
it does not work.
The code is like this:
this.test.assertExist('input[n ame=main][value=yes]');
casper.thenEvaluate(function(t erm) {
document.querySelector('input[ name=main][value=yes]').setAtt ribute('checked', true);

access to PhantomJS API from within Casper

sgavi...@gmail.com (Santiago Gaviria) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:08:19 UT

My general question is how can I use Phantom's API from within Casper?
But more specifically I want to use Phantom's clearCookies method. If not
possible how can I achieve the same with Casper?
Thanks

Traversing a page and doing an each loop on the links not working

gdare...@gmail.com (G.D. Arends) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:33:15 UT

Hi,
This is my first time trying out casperjs/phantomjs. And my javascript
knowledge is basic.
What I was trying to do is to use querySelectorAll to grab a list of
specific urls on a page and do a screenshot of each of those pages.
This is what I had made.. but it doesn't work. Can someone help a fella

Changing or aborting a request URL - Works in phantomjs but not casperjs

tahirfay...@gmail.com (Tahir Fayyaz) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:06:11 UT

Hi,
There is a new feature in phantomjs where you can change a request URL or
even abort it.
I took it from this commit
- [link]
this works perfectly in phantomjs but I cannot get it to work in casperjs
The code looks like this for example

Using CasperJS to user test websites

atei...@gmail.com (Alexander Teinum) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:10:32 UT

Greetings,

I’m working on a project related to my Master’s thesis for testing
accessibility, usability, and user experience aspects of websites, and I
think CasperJS could be ideal for presenting tests. The idea is to run a
website through an automated checker and have real users answer questions

Custom caching

warfi...@gmail.com (Richard Warfield) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:57:38 UT

I am using CasperJS as a web scraping solution for a page that makes heavy
use of various JS libraries. The problem I am trying to solve is that
loading pages takes way too long, largely because hundreds of JS libraries
are being loaded each time, even with the --disk-cache=yes option set.
There are also a bunch of AJAX calls that are unnecessary for my purposes

Need help on change Google Link Demo

linden.onlinemarket...@gmail.com (scub) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:52:18 UT

Hello i get no further, and I hope someone can help me. I want to send the
Google search and change the "Location" to switch the city. How can I do
this with casperjs?
Thanks a lot for any help :)

Scroll to Bottom to load older messages

david...@hootsuite.com (David Go) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:19:16 UT

Hi all,
So I just started trying out CasperJS and I've been reading around for how
to scroll to bottom on CasperJS... But I haven't found anything.
scroll() doesn't seem to work..
scrollPosition() doesn't seem to work either..
scrollTo() doesn't seem to work either. =(
Any ideas guys?

Disappearing Object Values (Possible Bug)

thealexba...@gmail.com (Alexander Baron) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:48:35 UT

*Can anyone tell me why Script A does not contain any information under the
"other" key in each object of the array?*
The only difference between these two scripts is how myArray is populated.
*Script A (**Unexpected Output)*
[link]
console log outputs:
[{"name":"name1","value":"valu e1"},{"name":"name2","

Is there a way to remove a listener?

m...@lapora.org (imagreenplant) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:10:53 UT

Hello all.
I am making use of the test functionality in casper where one can have many
test files, and casperjs will recursively run through the directories and
look for the test scripts. One one of my test scripts, I created a
resource requested listener:
casper.on('resource.requested' , function(resource) {...

Strange behavior with object arguments to evaluate

warfi...@gmail.com (Richard Warfield) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:45:40 UT

I get strange behavior with the below code:
var skus1 = {
'891952058863': {
'quantity': 1
var skus2 = {
'891952058863': {
'quantity': 1
'891952024165': {
'quantity': 1
// Go to an arbitrary URL and evaluate
casper.start('[link], function() {
this.evaluate(function(skus1) {
__utils__.echo("skus1 = "+JSON.stringify(skus1));

googlepagination.js sample problem

tanshiyang...@gmail.com (tan shiyang) — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:34:32 UT

I run the sample code:
but the results shows:
Actually the search results has more then 1 page, I found the problem is
cause of can't find "pnnext" element.
if (this.exists('#pnnext')) { // the line return false
...

Is there any reference of CasperJS?

tanshiyang...@gmail.com (tan shiyang) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:39:05 UT

Is there any reference of CasperJS, including objects, methods, for
example, mouse object, emit method
Thank you.

why need mouse move?

tanshiyang...@gmail.com (tan shiyang) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:13:53 UT

Hi, I'm studying CasperJS, I reading the sample bbcshots.js, on the line
28: this.mouse.move("#promo2_carou sel");
I try to remove this line, but when I run it, the output result shows:
8 items founds
Wait timeout of 5000ms expired, exiting.
why can't remove this line?
Thank you.

Is there any good develop tool for CasperJS?

tanshiyang...@gmail.com (tan shiyang) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:52:00 UT

Hi guys, is there any good develop tool for CasperJS? I'm using editplus
now, but it hasn't IntelliSense, what other tools?
also, can you tell me what best practice for CasperJS?

try/catch not trapping error

brettmorr...@gmail.com (Brett Morriss) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:38:25 UT

Catch block never happens:
I'm trying to locate an iframe in a page that does not have name attributes
for the iframes. So, to locate the correct iframe I am trying to locate a
form using a selector withing each iframe. For each iframe I find on the
page I am calling a simple function to look for an element within the

hangs on [debug] [phantom] url changed to XXX on new file with test Edit

samcc...@gmail.com (Sam Saccone) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:38:42 UT

So, the first test runs fine... and then when it goes to run the next file
i see
[info] [phantom] Starting...
[info] [phantom] Running suite: 5 steps
[debug] [phantom] opening url: [link], HTTP GET
[debug] [phantom] Navigation requested: url=[link],
type=Other, lock=true, isMainFrame=true

Casper.waitFor() timeout Problem

sanju.je...@gmail.com (Sanjay M) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:27:39 UT

Hi I tried to run my script, but getting this timeout error. Even itried to
increase the time also.

[root@Cloud360Console CasperJS]# *casperjs test
SettingCreateDeleteTestCase.js *
*Test file: SettingCreateDeleteTestCase.js *
[info] [phantom] Starting...
[info] [phantom] Running suite: 94 steps

Retrieving XML body on resource received

sharmi.chatter...@gmail.com (Sharmistha Chatterjee) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:31:37 UT

Hi,
I have written the following piece of code to retrieve a XML resource of a
website (dynamic web page with DOM elements).
In the HTTP response I am able to filter out the XML content type and
print its headers but unable to retrieve the XML body. Using wireshark I
can see the XML headers that I printed are exactly the same as the