Automate Website Screenshots
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With Python, you can take website screenshots in multiple ways. But the best way to do it depends solely on your needs and your use case. Let's quickly examine all the options.
Let's examine what Ruby proposes for us to render HTML or URL as a screenshot dynamically.
A screenshot API or a screenshot as a service is usually a cloud or a remote server service that provides the ability to render any website, HTML, Markdown, or even PDF by making a request to the service, be it over HTTP, TCP, or any other protocol.
When you want to take chat widgets, there are annoying chat widgets that you would love to hide. It is easy to do.
We can consider the screenshot of URL or HTML as a thumbnail, but I write about the thumbnail of a screenshot. How do you take a screenshot within the defined viewport but with different image width and height? Resize!
Puppeteer, by default, supports only four formats for taking screenshots or rendering HTML: PNG, JPEG, WebP, and PDF. But what if you want it to take it in a different format like GIF, JP2, TIFF, AVIF, HEIF, or SVG?
Join me in exploring how to find the ideal wait time or event of when to take the page screenshot with Puppeteer.
In this note, I share how I take website screenshots or render HTML and upload the resulted images or PDF to any S3-compatible storage like Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, or Backblaze B2.
Exhaustive documentation, ready SDKs, no-code tools, and other automation to help you render website screenshots and outsource all the boring work related to that to us.