PhantomJS doesn't need Xvfb anymore it can run headless without this dependency. | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		iamjustlooking on Dec 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun... PhantomJS doesn't need Xvfb anymore it can run headless without this dependency.

catch23 on Dec 10, 2012 [–]

well, it wasn't due to anything in phantomjs actually -- it was because qt introduced project lighthouse & their qt platform abstraction. project lighthouse was a fork that got integrated into qt 4.8 that phantomjs includes. (you can see the entire qt source tree if you git-clone phantomjs)

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact