jjgrainger / webshot

Consistant screenshots from the command line

Webshot v1.0

Consistant screenshots from the command line

Requirements

• Node
• npm

Installation

1. Clone the repository and install dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/jjgrainger/webshot.git
$ npm install

Usage

To take a screenshot of a website (google.com), cd into the webshot folder and run the following command in the terminal.

$ node webshot.js https://google.com

This will take a screenshot and save it to /shots directory using the domain name as a filename.

Options

Additional options can be passed as flags. So to set a delay of 5 seconds, you can run the following command in the terminal.

$ node webshot.js https://google.com --delay=5000

Below are the available options

• --delay - set a delay before taking the screenshot in milliseconds, default: 0
• --zoom - set the page zoom in percent, default: 90
• --width - set the width of the viewport in pixels, default: 1200
• --height - set the height of the viewport in pixels, default: 800

Notes

• Uses Google Chromes Puppeteer
• Licensed under the MIT License
• Maintained under the Semantic Versioning Guide

Authors

Joe Grainger

• https://jjgrainger.co.uk
• https://twitter.com/jjgrainger