[olug] automating web page screenshots

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

That is cool.  I know the phantomjs is used by many to run e2e tests on
build bots and saw an AngularJS presentation the other day, where they were
using it to prerender js template pages into varnish to help with SEO.

-Jeff


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Adam Haeder <adam at adamhaeder.com> wrote:

> Automating the creation of webpage screenshots used to be a giant thorn in
> my side. I just stumbled across this project on github today that makes it
> pretty simple:
> http://phantomjs.org/ - PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript
> API.
> It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS
> selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
>
> Howto:
> Step 1. Download the package from http://phantomjs.org/download.html.
> Compiled for CentOS 5.8 so you might not even have to compile it yourself.
> Step 2. Extract: tar xvjf phantomjs-1.8.2-linux-i686.tar.bz2
> Step 3. Go to the examples directory: cd
> phantomjs-1.8.2-linux-i686/examples
> Step 4. Grab a screenshot of google.com: ../bin/phantomjs ./rasterize.js "
> http://www.google.com" google.png
>
> Couldn't be easier
>
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