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cavaon-wayne/laravel-browsershot
================================

Browsershot's Laravel wrapper to generate PDF files and Screenshots using Headless Chrome

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[Browsershot](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot) wrapper for Laravel 6
==========================================================================

[](#browsershot-wrapper-for-laravel-6)

This package takes advantage of Google Chrome's Headless mode to take screenshots and generate PDFs from websites, views and raw html

Forked from [verumconsilium/laravel-browsershot](https://github.com/verumconsilium/laravel-browsershot)

Requirements
============

[](#requirements)

- [Node](https://nodejs.org/) 7.6.0 or higher
- [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/)
- [Puppeteer Node library](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer).

You can install Puppeteer in your project via NPM:

```
npm install puppeteer
```

Or you could opt to just install it globally

```
npm install puppeteer --global
```

On a [Forge](https://forge.laravel.com) provisioned Ubuntu 16.04 server you can install the latest stable version of Chrome like this:

```
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget
sudo npm install --global --unsafe-perm puppeteer
sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/lib/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium
```

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Install the package through composer

```
composer require cavaon-wayne/laravel-browsershot
```

After the package is installed the service provider will be automatically discovered and two new Facades `PDF` and `Screenshot` will be available

If the auto-discover not working, please add following service provider into `config/app.php`

```
Cavaon\Browsershot\BrowsershotServiceProvider::class,
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

The recommended way to use this package is through its Facades

PDF
---

[](#pdf)

### Generating a PDF from a view and returning it inline

[](#generating-a-pdf-from-a-view-and-returning-it-inline)

```

  use Cavaon\Browsershot\Facades\PDF;

  ...

  return PDF::loadView('view.name', $data)
            ->inline();

```

You can chain all the methods available in the [browsershot master library](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot)

### Returning the PDF as a download

[](#returning-the-pdf-as-a-download)

```
  use Cavaon\Browsershot\Facades\PDF;

  ...

  return PDF::loadView('view.name', $data)
            ->margins(20, 0, 0, 20)
            ->download();
```

You can pass the custom file name and additional headers the response will have to the `inline` and `download` methods like

```
  PDF::loadHtml('Awesome PDF')
      ->download('myawesomepdf.pdf', [
        'Authorization' => 'token'
      ]);
```

### Persisting PDF to disk

[](#persisting-pdf-to-disk)

If you would like to save the generated pdf file to your storage disk you can call the `store` or `storeAs` method

```
  $result = PDF::loadUrl('https://google.com')
                      ->store('abcd.pdf')
```

Screenshots
-----------

[](#screenshots)

Screenshots are created the same way as PDFs just change the facade to `Screenshot`

### Generating screenshots as JPG/JPEG

[](#generating-screenshots-as-jpgjpeg)

By default screenshots will be taken as PNG format if you would like to use JPG instead call the `useJPG()` method

```
use Cavaon\Browsershot\Facades\Screenshot;

Screenshot::loadView('view.name', $data)
           ->useJPG()
           ->margins(20, 0, 0, 20)
           ->download();
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~89 days

Total

5

Last Release

2022d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.3 → v2.0.02020-10-28

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/970173305592257c4780282a39fb8997a835d7a781eaab0ef1570ceebe41dce8?d=identicon)[wayne.w](/maintainers/wayne.w)

---

Top Contributors

[![tomatotravel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42629833?v=4)](https://github.com/tomatotravel "tomatotravel (4 commits)")[![cavaon-wayne](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54392913?v=4)](https://github.com/cavaon-wayne "cavaon-wayne (1 commits)")

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