Pass arguments with page.evaluate

I've had that exact problem. It can be done with a little trickery, because page.evaluate also can accept a string.

There are several ways to do it, but I use a wrapper called evaluate, which accepts additional parameters to pass to the function that must be evaluated on the webkit side. You would use it like this:

page.open(url, function() {
  var foo = 42;

  evaluate(page, function(foo) {
    // this code has now has access to foo
    console.log(foo);
  }, foo);
});

And here is the evaluate() function:

/*
 * This function wraps WebPage.evaluate, and offers the possibility to pass
 * parameters into the webpage function. The PhantomJS issue is here:
 * 
 *   http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=132
 * 
 * This is from comment #43.
 */
function evaluate(page, func) {
    var args = [].slice.call(arguments, 2);
    var fn = "function() { return (" + func.toString() + ").apply(this, " + JSON.stringify(args) + ");}";
    return page.evaluate(fn);
}

The change has been pushed and now you can use it as

page.open(url, function() {
  var foo = 42;

  page.evaluate( function(foo) {
  // this code has now has access to foo
  console.log(foo);
  }, foo);
}

The push details are here: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commit/81794f9096

You can pass in the arguments to the function as arguments to page.evaluate.

Example:

page.evaluate(function(arg1, arg2){
    console.log(arg1); //Will print "hi"
    console.log(arg2); //Will print "there"
}, "hi", "there");

There is the solution that works with PhantomJS 0.9.2 and 0.2.0:

page.evaluate(
    function (aa, bb) { document.title = aa + "/" + bb;}, //the function
    function (result) {}, // a callback when it's done
    "aaa", //attr 1
    "bbb"); //attr 2

Pass arguments with page.evaluate

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