Browsershot

The package can convert a web page to an image or PDF. The conversion is done behind the scenes by Puppeteer which runs a headless version of Google Chrome.

Here’s a quick example:

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.

// 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:

Browsershot::html('<h1>Hello world!!</h1>')->save('example.pdf');

If your HTML input is already in a file locally use the :

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:

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:

$requests = Browsershot::url('https://example.com')
    ->triggeredRequests();

foreach ($requests as $request) {
    $url = $request['url']; //https://example.com/
}

To use Chrome’s new headless mode pass the newHeadless method:

Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->newHeadless()->save($pathToImage);

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Documentation

All documentation is available on our documentation site.

Testing

For running the testsuite, you’ll need to have Puppeteer installed. Pleaser refer to the Browsershot requirements here. 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. Usually brew install poppler-utils will suffice.

Finally run the tests with:

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you’ve found a bug regarding security please mail [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, 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
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.