I'm late to the discussion here, but my own phantomjs module was mentioned
as an alternative to phantomjs-node in a hacker news posting last night:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5000306

It might be worth looking into if you're searching for phantom alternatives.



On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Андрей Листочкин <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I looked at this module couple of weeks ago. If you check GitHub Network
> page here https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node/network
> you'll see that a lot of people forked this project and add more
> functionality to it.
>
> There's also another binding to Phantom:
> https://npmjs.org/package/node-phantom
>
> I ended up using one of the forks and declared my dependency as
> "phantom": "git://github.com/sebv/phantomjs-node.git"
>
> Like others suggested if you are sure that you can commit to supporting
> this module then follow the official dispute procedure:
> https://npmjs.org/doc/disputes.html
>
> Isaac said in podcast that in practice it works really well. However, If
> you're not sure that you'll be able to continuously devote your time to
> this project, then picking a decent fork may be a better idea.
>
> Andrey
>
> On Jan 1, 2013, at 23:46 , Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > It would be good if npm have some better procedures for that, like
> allow to retake the name,
>
> God forbid that we run out of names.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Arunoda Susiripala <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And I would like to know that how many modules have been resolved like
>> this?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Mariusz Nowak <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I guess that about 50% of projects in npm reflect such state.
>>>
>>> It would be good if npm have some better procedures for that, like allow
>>> to retake the name, and give rights to publish greater versions.
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 31, 2012 2:18:31 PM UTC+1, toranb wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A few months back I took on a dependency of what appeared to be an
>>>> active npm module (phantomjs-node)
>>>>
>>>> But since then it's become clear that the maintainer is anything but.
>>>> I've even asked him to hand over the module to someone that is willing to
>>>> maintain it. But without even so much as a comment the project appears to
>>>> be stuck in limbo.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/sgentle/**phantomjs-node/issues/57<https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node/issues/57>
>>>>
>>>> The issue above was opened a month ago with no reply and I'm curious
>>>> what the community can do to help take back this well named but now dead
>>>> npm module
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>>
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