https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2

Take screenshots of web pages from R
https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2

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Take screenshots of web pages from R

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2
• Owner: rstudio
• Created: 2019-03-08T16:57:59.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-16T21:03:30.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-17T07:06:58.148Z (7 months ago)
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://rstudio.github.io/webshot2/
• Size: 3.18 MB
• Stars: 113
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 31
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md

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README

          
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output: github_document

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```{r, include = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",

  out.width = "100%"

)

```

# webshot2

[![R build status](https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2/actions)

[![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/webshot2)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=webshot2)

[![CRAN RStudio mirror downloads](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/webshot2?color=brightgreen)](https://www.r-pkg.org/pkg/webshot2)

[![RStudio community](https://img.shields.io/badge/community-webshot2-blue?style=social&logo=rstudio&logoColor=75AADB)](https://forum.posit.co/new-topic?category=shiny&tags=webshot2)

**webshot2** is meant to be a replacement for [webshot](https://wch.github.io/webshot/), except that instead of using PhantomJS, it uses headless Chrome via the [Chromote](https://github.com/rstudio/chromote) package.

## Installation

```R

# CRAN

install.packages("webshot2")

# Development

remotes::install_github("rstudio/webshot2")

```

You also need to have the Chrome browser installed on your system. You can also use other browsers based on Chromium, such as Chromium itself, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, or Opera.

## Usage

``` r

library(webshot2)

# Single page

webshot("https://www.r-project.org")

```



``` r

# Multiple pages (in parallel!)

webshot(c("https://www.r-project.org", "https://shiny.posit.co"))

```



``` r

# Specific height and width

webshot("https://www.r-project.org", vwidth = 1600, vheight = 900, cliprect = "viewport")

```



```{r demo-eval, eval = FALSE, echo = FALSE}

# Run this code to update the images above

library(webshot2)

# Multiple pages (in parallel!)

webshot(c("https://www.r-project.org", "https://shiny.posit.co"), c("man/figures/README-demo-1.png", "man/figures/README-demo-2.png"))

# Specific height and width

webshot("https://www.r-project.org", "man/figures/README-demo-3.png", vwidth = 1600, vheight = 900, cliprect = "viewport")

# Shrink screenshots

shrink(dir("man/figures", pattern = "png$", full.names = TRUE))

```