Chrome Headless Vagrant Screenshot

Readme.md

On Mac

Install Vagrant Box

if ! type "brew" > /dev/null; then
  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)";
fi
brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask && brew install brew-cask;
brew cask install vagrant;
brew cask install virtualbox;

Initialize Vagrant Box

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
vagrant ssh

On Vagrant Box

cd /vagrant

Install Chrome ()

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - 
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable 

Install Node

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Install dependencies

npm init
npm install --save chrome-remote-interface minimist

Run Chrome as background process

# https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md
# --disable-gpu currently required, see link above
google-chrome --headless --hide-scrollbars --remote-debugging-port=9222 --disable-gpu &

Take the screenshot

nodejs index.js --url="http://www.eff.org"