Installing/Using Phantom.js with Meteor - meteor

Question

I'm currently struggling with using Phantom.js with a Meteor app of mine. I have it installed on my local machine (Ubuntu 14.04), it's added to my path (I can run it from my terminal), I also ran and installed the smart wrapper for Phantomjs: mrt add phantomjs.
I can see that in my .meteor > local > build > programs > server > npm directory there is a phantomjs directory.
My question is, how do I actually use Phantom? I'm attempting to scrape from the server side of things. I've tried the following things (using coffeescript):
phantom = Npm.require "phantomjs"
phantom = Npm.require "phantom"
phantom = Meteor.require "phantomjs"
phantom = Meteor.require "phantom"
(I've also tried using capital "P's")
All attempts in this way yield: Error: Cannot find module 'phantomjs'
Any clarification would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

[EDIT] now meteor is supporting npm packages out of the box: https://guide.meteor.com/using-npm-packages.html#installing-npm
Here is the procedure for Meteor > 1.0.0
Add the npm package
meteor add meteorhacks:npm
Run meteor to let the npm package to pre-initialise
meteor
A file packages.json has been created at the root. Edit it to:
{
"phantomjs": "1.9.13"
}
To use phantom into your server side code:
var phantomJS = Meteor.npmRequire("phantomjs");
Bonus: an example of usage (thanks Ben Green), put anywhere in your code:
if (Meteor.isServer) {
Meteor.startup(function () {
var phantomjs = Meteor.npmRequire('phantomjs');
var spawn = Meteor.npmRequire('child_process').spawn;
Meteor.methods({
runTest: function (options) {
command = spawn(phantomjs.path, ['assets/app/phantomDriver.js']);
command.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
console.log('stdout: ' + data);
});
command.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
console.log('stderr: ' + data);
});
command.on('exit', function (code) {
console.log('child process exited with code ' + code);
});
}
});
Meteor.call("runTest");// run the test as soon as meteor server starts
});
}
Create the phantomjs script file ./private/phantomDriver.js and edit it to
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.open('http://github.com/', function (){
console.log('Page Loaded');
page.render('github.png');
phantom.exit();
});

Answer 2

The phantomjs wrapper in atmosphere doesn't look like it produces anything that works.
But you can easily add npm packages useing the npm meteorite package
First add the npm package to your project
mrt add npm
Then add the required phantomjs version to the packages.json file
{
"phantomjs": "1.9.7-6"
}
Then use the following code to require the phantomjs npm module:
var phantomjs = Meteor.require('phantomjs');