Is there a way to disable Google Analytics tracking in PhantomJS?

Question

I want to track some sites using PhantomJS, but I don’t want to spam peoples Google Analytics. Is there a way to disable the Google Analytics tracking script (ga.js / analytics.js) from sending data to Google? Like it is possible with the usual GAOptOut browser plugins.

I had a look in the Chrome Plugin and tried the code from that, but it doesn’t seem to be executed when telling PhantomJS to do so (onLoadStart).

Answer 1

Use page.onResourceRequested method to abort all requests to google analytics.

page.onResourceRequested = function(requestData, request) {
    if ((/google-analytics\.com/gi).test(requestData['url'])){
        console.log('Request to GA. Aborting: ' + requestData['url']);
        request.abort();
    }
};

Related, full example: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/loadurlwithoutcss.js