Trying to screen scrape a web site without having to launch an actual browser instance in a python script (using Selenium). I can do this with Chrome or Firefox - I've tried it and it works - but I want to use PhantomJS so it's headless.

The code looks like this:

```
import sys
import traceback
import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

dcap = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS)
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
    "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 "
    "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87"
)

try:
    # Choose our browser
    browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap)
    #browser = webdriver.PhantomJS()
    #browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    #browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")

    # Go to the login page
    browser.get("https://www.whatever.com")

    # For debug, see what we got back
    html_source = browser.page_source
    with open('out.html', 'w') as f:
        f.write(html_source)

    # PROCESS THE PAGE (code removed)

except Exception, e:
    browser.save_screenshot('screenshot.png')
    traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)

finally:
    browser.close()

```

The output is merely:

```
<html><head></head><body></body></html>

```

But when I use the Chrome or Firefox options, it works fine. I thought maybe the web site was returning junk based on the user agent, so I tried faking that out. No difference.

What am I missing?

UPDATED: I will try to keep the below snippet updated with until it works. What's below is what I'm currently trying.

```
import sys
import traceback
import time
import re

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

dcap = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS)
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
    "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87")

try:
    # Set up our browser
    browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap, service_args=['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'])
    #browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")

    # Go to the login page
    print "getting web page..."
    browser.get("https://www.website.com")

    # Need to wait for the page to load
    timeout = 10
    print "waiting %s seconds..." % timeout
    wait = WebDriverWait(browser, timeout)
    element = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID,'the_id')))
    print "done waiting. Response:"

    # Rest of code snipped. Fails as "wait" above.

```