Create a screenshot of any URL using phantomjs (headless webkit)

screenshot.js

//
// Example usage: phantomjs screenshot.js http://yahoo.com /tmp/yahoo.png
//

var system = require('system');
var url = system.args[1];
var filename = system.args[2];
var page = new WebPage();

page.open(url, function (status) {
  page.render(filename);
  console.log(filename)
  phantom.exit();
});

Aha! ariya/phantomjs@51ab11c

That might do it.

Yup. Built the 1.6 branch and that works.

page.open(url, function (status) {
console.log(page.renderBase64('PNG'))
phantom.exit();
});

So now I in a node server I can spawn this as a child process, listen to it's 'data' event, encode it back to binary and pipe it to the HTTP response. Obviously sending caching headers and caching on Cloudfront, Varnish, etc.

Voila!

@ismasan rad!

Hi,
I need to generate PDF instead of the image file. When i tried with 'PDF' to renderBase64, it doesn't work. Thanks.

ariya/phantomjs#10547