ngekoding/browsershot

Convert a webpage to an image or pdf using headless Chrome

v1.0.1 2021-07-06 03:35 UTC

Requires

• symfony/process: ^3.4

MIT

• Freek Van der Herten
• Nur Muhammad

• image
• pdf
• convert
• headless
• webpage
• chrome
• screenshot
• puppeteer

README

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.

PHP 5.6 Support

This package base on spatie/browsershot package, built to support PHP 5.6 version.

Here's a quick example:

use Ngekoding\Browsershot\Browsershot;

// a pdf will be saved
Browsershot::url('https://example.com')->save('path/to/result.pdf');

You can also use an arbitrary html input, simply replace the url method with html:

Browsershot::html('<h1>Not just hello world!</h1>')->save('path/to/result.pdf');

Features:

• Converting a webpage to pdf.
• Converting a webpage to image (coming soon).

How to install

composer require ngekoding/browsershot

Please go to the original package for full documentation.

Documentation

Important

You have to install the Puppeteer node library to make this package worked.

This package requires node 7.6.0 or higher and the Puppeteer Node library.

On MacOS you can install Puppeteer in your project via NPM:

npm install puppeteer

Or you could opt to just install it globally

npm install puppeteer --global