pytest.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import datetime
import base64

import requests


def main():
    input_filename = sys.argv[1]
    with open(input_filename) as f:
        html = f.read()

    payload = {'html': html}
    response = requests.post('http://localhost:8080/', data=payload)
    png_bytes = base64.b64decode(response.content)
    now = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
    filename = 'page_{0}.png'.format(now)

    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(png_bytes)

    print 'Writing to ' + filename


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

server.js

var SERVER_HOST = '127.0.0.1:8080',
    server = require('webserver').create(),
    webpage = require('webpage'),
    service = server.listen(SERVER_HOST, function(request, response) {
      var page = webpage.create(),
          response_content;

      page.content = request.post.html;
      response.write(page.renderBase64('PNG'));
      page.close();
      response.close();
});

console.log("Listening to " + SERVER_HOST + " ...");

work.md

Trying this out

• Install phantomjs
• run phantomjs server.js
• run python pytest.py