https://github.com/spatie/browsershot
Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string
https://github.com/spatie/browsershot
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Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot
- Owner: spatie
- License: mit
- Created: 2014-05-02T19:42:11.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-22T07:44:46.000Z (14 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-23T02:45:14.723Z (14 days ago)
- Topics: hacktoberfest, phantomjs, php, screenshot
- Language: PHP
- Homepage: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot
- Size: 86.2 MB
- Stars: 4,990
- Watchers: 60
- Forks: 506
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE.md
- Support: docs/support-us.md
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README
Render web pages to an image or PDF with Puppeteer
[](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot/releases)
[](LICENSE.md)
[](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot/actions)
[](https://packagist.org/packages/spatie/browsershot)
The package can convert a web page to an image or PDF. The conversion is done behind the scenes by [Puppeteer](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer) which runs a headless version of Google Chrome.
Here's a quick example:
```php
use Spatie\Browsershot\Browsershot;
// an image will be saved
Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->save($pathToImage);
```
It will save a PDF if the path passed to the `save` method has a `pdf` extension.
```php
// a pdf will be saved
Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->save('example.pdf');
```
You can also use an arbitrary html input, simply replace the `url` method with `html`:
```php
Browsershot::html('
Hello world!!
')->save('example.pdf');
```
If your HTML input is already in a file locally use the :
```php
Browsershot::htmlFromFilePath('/local/path/to/file.html')->save('example.pdf');
```
Browsershot also can get the body of an html page after JavaScript has been executed:
```php
Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->bodyHtml(); // returns the html of the body
```
If you wish to retrieve an array list with all of the requests that the page triggered you can do so:
```php
$requests = Browsershot::url('https://example.com')
->triggeredRequests();
foreach ($requests as $request) {
$url = $request['url']; //https://example.com/
}
```
To use Chrome's new [headless mode](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome) pass the `newHeadless` method:
```php
Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->newHeadless()->save($pathToImage);
```
## Support us
Learn how to create a package like this one, by watching our premium video course:
[](https://laravelpackage.training)
We invest a lot of resources into creating [best in class open source packages](https://spatie.be/open-source). You can support us by [buying one of our paid products](https://spatie.be/open-source/support-us).
We highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using. You'll find our address on [our contact page](https://spatie.be/about-us). We publish all received postcards on [our virtual postcard wall](https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards).
## Documentation
All documentation is available [on our documentation site](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot).
## Testing
For running the testsuite, you'll need to have Puppeteer installed. Pleaser refer to the Browsershot requirements [here](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/requirements). Usually `npm -g i puppeteer` will do the trick.
Additionally, you'll need the `pdftotext` CLI which is part of the poppler-utils package. More info can be found in in the [spatie/pdf-to-text readme](https://github.com/spatie/pdf-to-text?tab=readme-ov-file#requirements). Usually `brew install poppler-utils` will suffice.
Finally run the tests with:
```bash
composer test
```
## Contributing
Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/spatie/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
## Security
If you've found a bug regarding security please mail [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) instead of using the issue tracker.
## Alternatives
If you're not able to install Node and Puppeteer, take a look at [v2 of browsershot](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot/tree/2.4.1), which uses Chrome headless CLI to take a screenshot. `v2` is not maintained anymore, but should work pretty well.
If using headless Chrome does not work for you take a look at at `v1` of this package which uses the abandoned `PhantomJS` binary.
## Credits
- [Freek Van der Herten](https://github.com/freekmurze)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)
## License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.