gistfile1.js

var page = require('webpage').create();
var system = require('system');
var address;

address = system.args[1];

console.log(address);

page.open(address, function(status) {
  console.log(status);
});

console.log('Done');
phantom.exit();

If the file doesn't finish loading you'll not get anything I've found - the code you have is valid though.

I never use PhantomJS in this way, I spawn it up on the command line and interact with it via WebDriver, it's hella lot more stable that way.

It looks like it works if I move the phantom.exit() to inside the callback that is passed to open. I was just putting it outside since the PhantomJS docs only said

"It is very important to call phantom.exit at some point in the script, otherwise PhantomJS will not be terminated at all."

Lol - yes sorry ,obvious thing - if you call it at the end it'll be called before the page is opened and you'll never get the callback

My tests tend to do

before(function(done) {
  setupPhantom(done)
})

after(function(done) {
  closePhantom()
})

Oooh, hehe yeah that make sense. Cheers!

I've not gotten that far.. literally using it for the first time today and I'm following their "Getting Started" section before I dig any deeper :)