browsershot
Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string (by spatie)
headless-chromium-php
Instrument headless chrome/chromium instances from PHP (by chrome-php)
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| browsershot | headless-chromium-php | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 10 | |
| 4,676 | 2,155 | |
| 1.2% | 2.2% | |
| 8.2 | 7.0 | |
| 12 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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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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 ?
headless-chromium-php
Posts with mentions or reviews of headless-chromium-php.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
- HTML to PDF package that supports RTL language?
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Modern PDF library (no html)
I currently use https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome
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Best way to create a pdfs (Recommend a library)
Headless Chrome with https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome works best for me. All native packages have it's quirks sadly.
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TCPDF
We also use headless Chrome to generate the PDFs, using https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome and https://github.com/dreadnip/chrome-pdf-bundle
- Best PHP library options for scraping sites with JavaScript - Symfony Panther, Chrome-PHP, Mink, etc.?
- chrome-php: PHP Fatal error: HeadlessChromium\BrowserFactory not found in file.php
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An interview task I was given for a PHP role. After reporting back that the DVLA website responds with a 403 error, i was told to think of other solutions? Any suggestions?
Maybe download the file using a headless browser, and work from there? https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome
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Can you "emulate" a form submission with file attachment?
Yes this is the kind of thing you can do with headless browsers. Look at something like this - https://github.com/chrome-php/headless-chromium-php
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Snappdf - Super simple & fast way to generate PDFs using Chromium/Chrome
did you consider using https://github.com/chrome-php/headless-chromium-php instead?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing browsershot and headless-chromium-php you can also consider the following projects:
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
Symfony Panther - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony
laravel-snappy - Laravel Snappy PDF
Invoice Ninja - Invoices, Expenses and Tasks built with Laravel, Flutter and React
pagedjs - Display paginated content in the browser and generate print books using web technology
google-search-results-php - Google Search Results PHP API via Serp Api
mPDF - PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
DiDOM - Simple and fast HTML and XML parser
chrome-aws-lambda-layer - 58 MB Google Chrome to fit inside AWS Lambda Layer compressed with Brotli
snappdf - Convert webpages or HTML into the PDF file using Chromium-powered browsers.
Bingo Functional - A simple functional programming library for PHP
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browsershot vs laravel-snappy
headless-chromium-php vs Invoice Ninja
browsershot vs pagedjs
headless-chromium-php vs google-search-results-php
browsershot vs mPDF
headless-chromium-php vs DiDOM
browsershot vs chrome-aws-lambda-layer
headless-chromium-php vs snappdf
browsershot vs snappdf
headless-chromium-php vs Bingo Functional