PhantomJs: Spawn is not opening any app

Question

I installed phantomJs using npm globally. Why this code isn't working?

 var page = require('webpage').create(); var spawn = require('child_process').spawn; page.open('http://google.com', function(status){ if( status == 'success' ) { page.render('/tmp/google-snapshot.jpg'); spawn('/usr/bin/sensible-browser', 'file:///tmp/google-snapshot.jpg'); phantom.exit(); } }) 

Im using linux mint. Typing command /usr/bin/sensible-browser file:///example.png in terminal works fine but why this doesn't work through script.?

Answer 1

It turns out phantom.exit() was getting called before spawn() can get complete. Below code fixed the problem.

var page  = require('webpage').create();
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

page.open('http://google.com', function(status){
  if( status == 'success' ) {
    page.render('/tmp/google-snapshot.jpg');
    spawn('/usr/bin/sensible-browser', 'file:///tmp/google-snapshot.jpg');
  }
  setTimeout(function(){
    phantom.exit();
  },2000);
});

Reference: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/pull/14220