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API route to capture and send page screenshot with Puppeteer and Express JS
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const puppeteer = require('puppeteer') | |
app.get('/api/snapshot', async (req, res) => { | |
if (!req.query.url || !req.query.width || !req.query.height) { | |
res.status(400).send({message: 'Invalid input'}) | |
return | |
} | |
// Create a snapshot and send it back | |
try { | |
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }) | |
const page = await browser.newPage() | |
await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.125 Safari/537.36') | |
await page.setViewport({ width: parseInt(req.query.width), height: parseInt(req.query.height) }) | |
await page.goto(req.query.url, {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'}) | |
const buffer = await page.screenshot({type: 'png'}) | |
// Send it back | |
res.setHeader('content-type', 'image/png') | |
res.write(buffer,'binary') | |
res.end(null, 'binary') | |
// Close browser and page | |
await page.close() | |
browser.close() | |
} catch (error) { | |
res.status(500).send({message: 'Failed to create snapshot'}) | |
} | |
}) |
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