Puppeteer as a Service

Getting Started

# Step 1: start browserless chrome
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name browserless whatwewant/browserless-chrome:v1-0

# Step 2: start puppeteer service
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --name puppeteer-as-a-service \
  -e BROWSER_WS_ENDPOINT=ws://browserless:3000 \
  whatwewant/puppeteer:latest

Usage

1. Generate PDF

• Params
  • url: The URL to site url
    • required: true
  • format: The format of the outputted PDF
    • required: false
    • default: A4

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:8887/pdf \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://www.baidu.com"
  }'

2. Generate Screenshot (Image)

• Params
  • url: The URL to site url
    • required: true
  • fullPage: When true, takes a screenshot of the full scrollable page
    • required: false
    • default: true
  • encoding: The encoding of the image, can be either base64 or undefined
    • required: false
    • default: none
    • available: base64 | undefined
  • width: The width of the image
    • required: false
  • height: The height of the image
    • required: false

curl -X POST \
  http://localhost:8080/image \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://www.baidu.com"
  }'

License

• MIT