diff --git a/lib/facter/latest_phantomjsversion.rb b/lib/facter/latest_phantomjsversion.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d27723c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/facter/latest_phantomjsversion.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Facter.add("latest_phantomjsversion") do
+  setcode do
+    require 'open-uri'
+    url="http://phantomjs.org/download.html"
+
+    file = open("#{url}")
+    contents = file.read()
+    match = contents.match(/phantomjs-((\d\.){2}\d)-linux/)
+    version = match[1]
+  end
+end
diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index 8b1c029..4291daa 100644
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Base class for phantomjs module
 class phantomjs (
-  $package_version = '1.9.7',
+  $package_version = $::latest_phantomjsversion,
   $source_url = undef,
   $source_dir = '/opt',
   $install_dir = '/usr/local/bin',