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I am trying to run a python script on a linux server which uses selenium and a phantomjs webdriver; however, I keep getting the following error message:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /home/ubuntu/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127
Here is a simple test script that fails and generates this error:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/home/ubuntu/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs')
calling file on the path, returns:
file /home/ubuntu/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs
/home/ubuntu/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom/bin/phantomjs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=d0f2a21ff9e0b82113a2095e7cbca7dceaba88fb, stripped
Does anyone have any idea how I can get this script up and running? I've read over what appear to be similar stackoverflow questions and attempted to apply suggested solutions such as reinstalling phantom via npm and executing the script with sudo, but have had no luck. If I can provide anymore info please let me know.
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Selenium considers PhantomJS as deprecated, so you need to us either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode.
To use the PhantomJS webdriver, all you need to do is change it to PhantomJS(). Then will This will work with both Python 2.7 and Python 3. On Windows, the path should be changed to the location of your phantomjs installation.
Key Differences Between Selenium and PhantomJS Being a headless browser, the interactions are much faster than the real browser. So the performance time is smoother in PhantomJS than in Selenium.
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig
This solved my issue.
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