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Playing with it now, and while it seems to hit my download need, I can't seem to get it to play nice with sites that are JavaScript dependent. Am I missing something, or is there a way to plugin an underlying WebKit engine?


PhantomJS is capable of downloading binary content from js dependent sites but it is a journey to get it working as it is not an out-of-the-box feature. Instead use CasperJS to drive Phantom and get a ton of snazzy features including simple binary downloads. Happy scraping!




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