webshotgun

Webshotgun allows you to rapidly take high fidelity screenshots of websites.

Webshotgun uses SlimerJS, scripting for Firefox. Because SlimerJS always uses a very recent version of firefox, modern CSS support and rendering is much more reliable than tools based on PhantomJS.

Quickstart

Be sure you've installed Node and Firefox. You can get started quickly with the CLI:

$ npm install -g webshotgun
$ webshotgun --dest 'shots' google.com reddit.com nodejs.org

For more information on the CLI, use the --help flag:

$ webshotgun --help
 
Usage: webshotgun [options] <urls ...>
 
Options:
 
  -h, --help         output usage information
  -V, --version      output the version number
  -f, --file <file>  Read urls from a JSON – ["URL", "URL", ... ] – or CSV file. (URLs separated by whitespace or commas.)
  -d, --dest <path>  Set the directory in which to save screenshots. [default: './webshotgun']
  -w, --width        Set the viewport width (in pixels) at which to take screenshots. [default: '1500']
  -t, --tree         Organize screenshots into a folder tree matching the URL structure.
  -q, --quiet        Silence standard output.
 
Examples:
 
  $ webshotgun google.com reddit.com nodejs.org
  $ webshotgun --file urls.json --tree
  $ webshotgun --file urls.csv
  $ webshotgun --file urls.txt --width 500 --dest mobile-shots

API

$ npm install webshotgun

var webshotgun = require('webshotgun');
 
webshotgun.shoot({
    dest: 'destination folder',
    urls: ['http://google.com', 'http://reddit.com', 'http://nodejs.org'],
    quiet: true,
    tree: true,
    width: 2000
}, function() {
  console.log('Capture complete.')
});

Development

Run npm link to link the CLI during development.