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Create a workflow to Screenshot a Page with the Puppeteer API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Configure the Screenshot a Page action
    1. Connect your Puppeteer account
    2. Configure URL
    3. Optional- Configure Download Path
    4. Optional- Configure Capture Beyond Viewport
    5. Optional- Configure Clip Height
    6. Optional- Configure Clip Scale
    7. Optional- Configure Clip Width
    8. Optional- Configure Clip X
    9. Optional- Configure Clip Y
    10. Optional- Select a Encoding
    11. Optional- Configure From Surface
    12. Optional- Configure Full Page
    13. Optional- Configure Omit Background
    14. Optional- Configure Optimize For Speed
    15. Optional- Configure Quality
    16. Optional- Select a Type
  2. Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
  3. Deploy the workflow
  4. Send a test event to validate your setup
  5. Turn on the trigger

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Details

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Screenshot a Page on Puppeteer
Description:Captures a screenshot of a page using Puppeteer. [See the documentation](https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.screenshot)
Version:1.0.2
Key:puppeteer-screenshot-page

Code

import puppeteer from "../../puppeteer.app.mjs";
import constants from "../../common/constants.mjs";
import common from "../common/common.mjs";
import fs from "fs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "puppeteer-screenshot-page",
  name: "Screenshot a Page",
  description:
    "Captures a screenshot of a page using Puppeteer. [See the documentation](https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.screenshot)",
  version: "1.0.2",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    puppeteer,
    ...common.props,
    downloadPath: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Download Path",
      description:
        "Download the screenshot to the `/tmp` directory with the specified filename",
      optional: true,
    },
    captureBeyondViewport: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Capture Beyond Viewport",
      description: "Capture the screenshot beyond the viewport.",
      optional: true,
      default: true,
    },
    clipHeight: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Clip Height",
      description: "Specifies the height of the region of the page to clip.",
      optional: true,
    },
    clipScale: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Clip Scale",
      description: "Specifies the scale of the region of the page to clip.",
      default: "1",
      optional: true,
    },
    clipWidth: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Clip Width",
      description: "Specifies the width of the region of the page to clip.",
      optional: true,
    },
    clipX: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Clip X",
      description: "Specifies the X value of the region of the page to clip.",
      optional: true,
    },
    clipY: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Clip Y",
      description: "Specifies Y value of the region of the page to clip.",
      optional: true,
    },
    encoding: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Encoding",
      description: "Encoding of the image.",
      optional: true,
      default: "binary",
      options: constants.IMAGE_ENCODING,
    },
    fromSurface: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "From Surface",
      description:
        "Capture the screenshot from the surface, rather than the view.",
      optional: true,
      default: false,
    },
    fullPage: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Full Page",
      description: "When true, takes a screenshot of the full page.",
      optional: true,
      default: false,
    },
    omitBackground: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Omit Background",
      description:
        "Hides default white background and allows capturing screenshots with transparency.",
      optional: true,
      default: false,
    },
    optimizeForSpeed: {
      type: "boolean",
      label: "Optimize For Speed",
      description: "Optimize for speed.",
      optional: true,
      default: false,
    },
    quality: {
      type: "integer",
      label: "Quality",
      description:
        "Quality of the image, between 0-100. Not applicable to png images.",
      optional: true,
    },
    type: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Type",
      description: "Type of the screenshot image.",
      optional: true,
      default: "png",
      options: constants.SCREENSHOT_TYPE,
    },
  },
  methods: {
    async downloadToTMP(screenshot) {
      const path = this.downloadPath.includes("/tmp")
        ? this.downloadPath
        : `/tmp/${this.downloadPath}`;
      fs.writeFileSync(path, screenshot);
      return path;
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (
      (this.clipHeight || this.clipWidth || this.clipX || this.clipY) &&
      !(this.clipHeight && this.clipWidth && this.clipX && this.clipY)
    ) {
      throw new ConfigurationError(
        "Clip height, width, X, and Y must be specified to create clip.",
      );
    }

    const clip =
      this.clipHeight || this.clipWidth || this.clipX || this.clipY
        ? {
          height: parseFloat(this.clipHeight),
          scale: parseFloat(this.clipScale),
          width: parseFloat(this.clipWidth),
          x: parseFloat(this.clipX),
          y: parseFloat(this.clipY),
        }
        : undefined;

    const options = {
      captureBeyondViewport: this.captureBeyondViewport,
      clip,
      encoding: this.encoding,
      fromSurface: this.fromSurface,
      fullPage: this.fullPage,
      omitBackground: this.omitBackground,
      optimizeForSpeed: this.optimizeForSpeed,
      quality: this.quality,
      type: this.type,
    };

    const url = this.normalizeUrl();
    const browser = await this.puppeteer.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto(url);
    const screenshot = await page.screenshot(options);
    await browser.close();

    const filePath =
      screenshot && this.downloadPath
        ? await this.downloadToTMP(screenshot)
        : undefined;

    if (screenshot) {
      $.export("$summary", `Successfully captured screenshot from ${url}`);
    }

    return filePath
      ? {
        screenshot: screenshot.toString("base64"),
        filePath,
      }
      : screenshot.toString("base64");
  },
};

Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
PuppeteerpuppeteerappThis component uses the Puppeteer app.
URLurlstring

The URL of the page to scrape. For example, https://example.com.

Download PathdownloadPathstring

Download the screenshot to the /tmp directory with the specified filename

Capture Beyond ViewportcaptureBeyondViewportboolean

Capture the screenshot beyond the viewport.

Clip HeightclipHeightstring

Specifies the height of the region of the page to clip.

Clip ScaleclipScalestring

Specifies the scale of the region of the page to clip.

Clip WidthclipWidthstring

Specifies the width of the region of the page to clip.

Clip XclipXstring

Specifies the X value of the region of the page to clip.

Clip YclipYstring

Specifies Y value of the region of the page to clip.

EncodingencodingstringSelect a value from the drop down menu:base64binary
From SurfacefromSurfaceboolean

Capture the screenshot from the surface, rather than the view.

Full PagefullPageboolean

When true, takes a screenshot of the full page.

Omit BackgroundomitBackgroundboolean

Hides default white background and allows capturing screenshots with transparency.

Optimize For SpeedoptimizeForSpeedboolean

Optimize for speed.

Qualityqualityinteger

Quality of the image, between 0-100. Not applicable to png images.

TypetypestringSelect a value from the drop down menu:pngjpegwebp

Authentication

The Puppeteer API does not require authentication.

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Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.

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