FEATURE: Ability to prevent resources from being loaded.

[morganrallen]

morganrallen@gmail.com commented:

The desire here is to be abel to cancel a resource from being loaded during page.onResourceRequested something like

page.onResourceRequested = function(request) {
if(request.url.indexOf("run.js") > -1) {
return false; // or request.cancel() or request.abort();
}
}

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #230.
🌟   37 people had starred this issue at the time of migration.

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

 

 
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[xbeumala]

xavi.beu...@gmail.com commented:

this feature would be very helpful to minimize load times and start performing tasks earlier (i.e. avoiding Ads loading times, certaing .js , etc...)

It would be a fantastic feature

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Issue 339 has been merged into this issue.

[iwek]

iwokadzi...@gmail.com commented:

Hoping this gets added soon.

[ariya]

olife...@gmail.com commented:

This would be very helpful!

[ariya]

blademcc...@gmail.com commented:

whats the workaround for this?

[fritzfs]

frit...@gmail.com commented:

At this moment there's only one way, modify the createRequest function in networkaccessmanager.cpp and rebuild phantomjs. Take a look at this example, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4575245/how-to-tell-qwebpage-not-to-load-specific-type-of-resources.
Note: I'm not a phantomjs guru so perhaps someone else can comment this.

[ariya]

blademcc...@gmail.com commented:

... what kind of donation to the project could get this as a high priority item? i might be able to arrange something.

[Rebolon]

richard....@gmail.com commented:

I also think that it's a really good feature. Actually event like onResourceRequested is only usefull for logging (or other features). But it would be interesting ot disable some request (javascript that load advertising and that may break the testsuite...).

[ariya]

nicefive...@gmail.com commented:

waiting for this feature!

[ariya]

jonas.ge...@googlemail.com commented:

Yes, that would be nice.

I have created an small patch against PhantomJS for me and added an option --ignore-host='(google.com|facebook.com)'

So PhantomJS will not load any resources from hosts that matches the above regexp.

[ariya]

seve...@gmail.com commented:

I would love this feature too. J

[ariya]

jonas.ge...@googlemail.com commented:

My hacky patch for that:

https://github.com/hggh/phantomjs/compare/ignore-host.patch

If you apply that patch, you can use this:

--ignore-host='(google.com|twitter.com)'

That's perfect for Nagios/Icinga checks with https://github.com/hggh/phantomjs-nagios to ignore social media stuff or tracking.

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Issue 395 has been merged into this issue.

[JamesMGreene]

james.m....@gmail.com commented:

Issue 288 has been merged into this issue.