Phantomjs prints empty HTML source

Question

I have a JS file to add headers as follows.

var webPage = require('webpage');
var system = require('system');
var page = webPage.create();

page.customHeaders = {"pragma": "akamai-x-feo-trace"};
page.settings.userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"

if (system.args.length === 1) {
    console.log('Try to pass some args when invoking this script!');
} else {
    page.open(system.args[1], function (status) {
    var content = page.content;
    console.log(content);
    phantom.exit();
    });
}

I am now executing the following phantoms command

phantomjs RequestURL.js http:////www.ubank.com.au > body.html

Upon opening body.html I get an empty HTML file as follows.

<html><head></head><body></body></html>

Why the HTML source is not getting generated here.

try using service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'].see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23581291/python-selenium-with-phantomjs-empty-page-source — Suchit kumar, Jan 08 '15 at 06:40
I tried now `phantomjs RequestURL.js service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'] http:////www.ubank.com.au > body.html` still empty html — station, Jan 08 '15 at 06:47
`http:////www.ubank.com.au` is definitely not a valid URL. Try ``http://www.ubank.com.au`` — Artjom B., Jan 08 '15 at 11:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '15 at 18:01

1. Maybe page content is not loading with DOM start. (I had the same problem). You can set any timeout after load page.

2. Don't use page.content function. Better write simple execute in client-side. Like that:

page.evaluate(function() {
    return document.body.outerHTML;
})

Or, something like that. If you have any JS errors, please comment my post with this errors. Hope, its help

Phantomjs prints empty HTML source

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