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Convert a webpage to an image or pdf using headless Chrome
The package can convert a webpage to an image or pdf. The conversion is done behind the scenes by Puppeteer which controls 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');
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/
}
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Documentation
All documentation is available on our documentation site.
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](../../contributors)
And a special thanks to Caneco for the logo ✨
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Browsershot README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.