browsershot
Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string (by spatie)
browserless
Deploy headless browsers in Docker. Run on our cloud or bring your own. Free for non-commercial uses. (by browserless)
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| browsershot | browserless | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 21 | |
| 4,676 | 7,893 | |
| 1.2% | 10.8% | |
| 8.2 | 9.8 | |
| 13 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| PHP | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
browsershot
Posts with mentions or reviews of browsershot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-17.
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My decade long, carefully maintained collection of 700+ handy web dev & design bookmarks. Delve in to my toolkit!
Sure! PHP makes it really simple. I use https://github.com/spatie/browsershot that just makes its way through a JSON feed of the links on a cronjob. I host a lot of stuff on a single VPS so its super flexible.
- Seeking recommendation for image generation in PHP
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[Showoff Saturday] 10+ years of collecting web dev/design resources in one easy to discover web dev toolkit 🧰 (link in comments)
I used https://github.com/spatie/browsershot along with the WP REST API on a cronjob. I actually used it for social preview images too! https://twitter.com/addy_codes. Each link has a hidden page that builds the social preview in HTML then the screenshot tool screenshots it for me.
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Any libraries out there that make building a document/template builder for the end user a possibility? Any suggestions for alternatives?
We have an application that generates shipping documentation in PDF formats based on data pulled from our ERP software. I wrote this application myself and uses templates defined in CSS and then use this package to generate the PDF: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot
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Options for server-end HTML to PDF?
I've recently switched from wkhtmltopdf to https://github.com/spatie/browsershot.
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Best way to create a pdfs (Recommend a library)
I highly recommend using Chrome in headless mode using this package.
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How to make screenshots in Laravel with Browsershot
Browsershot is a software by Spatie that converts a webpage into an image or PDF by utilising a headless instance of Chrome. In this post, you will learn how to install it in your Laravel application and use it.
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10 Laravel packages that might save your day
An alternative and a more popular solution to this is of course spatie/browsershot which does the same thing but using headless Chrome. I used to use Snappy years ago, but now I use Browsershot.
- Convert a webpage to an image or pdf using headless Chrome
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Vapor custom Docker image + Browsershot
Has anyone managed to make Browsershot (https://github.com/spatie/browsershot) work on Laravel Vapor with docker ?
browserless
Posts with mentions or reviews of browserless.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
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How and why we ripped our Open Source product apart for a full rebuild
The core product is managed, cloud hosted browsers. We run thousands at a time using AWS and DigitalOcean, for people to use with Puppeteer and Playwright scripts. Our container is also available to self deploy under an open-source license.
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Self-hosted browserless.io alternative ?
You should search for "Puppeteer as a service", there are some projects on github that you could deploy such as https://github.com/browserless/chrome
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Remote Server Compromised
So I recently installed ChangeDetectioIO on my server, it requires either selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59 or browserless/chrome. I installed it with Selenium in a docker container since I noticed that it was running better than the browserless/chrome service.
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Angular docker base image
I had a look to this one: https://github.com/browserless/chrome ... but it is not suitable for builds, e.g. set to production mode, user permissions and so on.
- browserless chrome (Web browser automation built for everyone)
- Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
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Using changedetection.io (installed via pip, not docker). How do I set up "WebDriver Chrome/Javascript"
git clone https://github.com/browserless/chrome /opt/browserless
- How to automate PDF generation of dashboards/web pages with open-source web automation
- Starring your repo does not give you permission to spam me
What are some alternatives?
When comparing browsershot and browserless you can also consider the following projects:
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
headless-chromium-php - Instrument headless chrome/chromium instances from PHP
PHP-Proxy - Proxy Application built on php-proxy library ready to be installed on your server
laravel-snappy - Laravel Snappy PDF
Twitch-Drops-Bot - A Node.js bot that will automatically watch Twitch streams and claim drop rewards.
pagedjs - Display paginated content in the browser and generate print books using web technology
selenoid - Selenium Hub successor running browsers within containers. Scalable, immutable, self hosted Selenium-Grid on any platform with single binary.
mPDF - PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
FPDI - FPDI is a collection of PHP classes facilitating developers to read pages from existing PDF documents and use them as templates in FPDF.
chrome-aws-lambda-layer - 58 MB Google Chrome to fit inside AWS Lambda Layer compressed with Brotli
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browsershot vs mPDF
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