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https://github.com/vitalie/webshot
Captures a web page as a screenshot.
https://github.com/vitalie/webshot
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Captures a web page as a screenshot.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vitalie/webshot
- Owner: vitalie
- License: mit
- Created: 2013-04-30T10:07:23.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-12-30T04:21:46.000Z (12 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-11T10:53:05.982Z (about 1 month ago)
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 47.9 KB
- Stars: 214
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 68
- Open Issues: 19
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# Webshot
Captures a web page as a screenshot using Poltergeist, Capybara and PhantomJS.
- [](https://travis-ci.org/vitalie/webshot)
## Installation
Download and install [PhantomJS](http://phantomjs.org/releases.html) version 2.X,
add the directory containing the binary to your PATH.
Add the `webshot` gem to your Gemfile:
gem "webshot"
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install webshot
## Usage
```rb
# Setup Capybara
ws = Webshot::Screenshot.instance
# Capture Google's home page
ws.capture "http://www.google.com/", "google.png"
# Customize thumbnail
ws.capture "http://www.google.com/", "google.png", width: 100, height: 90, quality: 85
# Specify only width, height will be computed according to page's height
ws.capture "http://www.google.com/", "google.png", width: 1024
# Specify an array of additional HTTP status codes to accept,
# beyond normal success codes like 200 or 302
ws.capture "http://www.google.com/foo", "google_404.png", allowed_status_codes: [404]
# Customize thumbnail generation (MiniMagick)
# see: https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick
ws.capture("http://www.google.com/", "google.png") do |magick|
magick.combine_options do |c|
c.thumbnail "100x"
c.background "white"
c.extent "100x90"
c.gravity "north"
c.quality 85
end
end
```
You can wait some time after visit page before capturing screenshot.
```rb
# Timeout in seconds
ws.capture 'http://www.google.com/', 'google.png', timeout: 2
```
You can login before capturing screenshot.
```rb
ws.start_session do
visit 'https://github.com/login'
fill_in 'Username or Email', :with => '[email protected]'
fill_in 'Password', :with => 'password'
click_button 'Sign in'
end.capture 'https://github.com/username/', 'github.png'
```
## Scaling
It's not recommended to start multiple PhantomJS concurrently.
You should serialize requests, treat the process as unreliable and
monitor it with daemontools, god, monit, etc.
Recommended setup:
[S3] <-- [CloudFront + 404 handler] <-- User Request
^
|
Worker <--> [Queue] <-- App
The application triggers screenshot requests which are queued and
then processed by a background worker ([Resque](https://github.com/resque/resque), [Sidekiq](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq), etc).
The worker uploads the images to S3 which are served through
CloudFront. The CDN should be configured to serve a default
image (404 handler) with a low TTL to handle screenshot are not
yet ready or couldn't be generated.
Notes:
- sed 's/S3/Your file hosting service/g'
- sed 's/CloudFront/Your CDN service/g'
## Contributing
1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request