pdf-bot - 🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome

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Easily create a microservice for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. pdf-bot is installed on a server and will receive URLs to turn into PDFs through its API or CLI. pdf-bot will manage a queue of PDF jobs. Once a PDF job has run it will notify you using a webhook so you can fetch the API. pdf-bot supports storing PDFs on S3 out of the box. Failed PDF generations and Webhook pings will be retried after a configurable decaying schedule.

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decktape - PDF exporter for HTML presentations

•    Javascript

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DeckTape is a high-quality PDF exporter for HTML presentation frameworks. DeckTape is built on top of Puppeteer which relies on Google Chrome for laying out and rendering Web pages and provides a headless Chrome instance scriptable with a JavaScript API.

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bookmark-archiver - 🗄 Save an archived copy of all websites starred using Pocket/Pinboard/Bookmarks

•    Python

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Save an archived copy of all websites you bookmark (the actual content of each site, not just the list of bookmarks).Outputs browsable static html archives of each site, a PDF, a screenshot, and a link to a copy on archive.org, all indexed with nice html & json files.

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headless-chrome-crawler - Distributed crawler powered by Headless Chrome

•    Javascript

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Crawlers based on simple requests to HTML files are generally fast. However, it sometimes ends up capturing empty bodies, especially when the websites are built on such modern frontend frameworks as AngularJS, React and Vue.js. Note: headless-chrome-crawler contains Puppeteer. During installation, it automatically downloads a recent version of Chromium. To skip the download, see Environment variables.

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browsershot - Convert html to an image, pdf or string

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The package can convert a webpage to an image or pdf. The conversion is done behind the scenes by Puppeteer which controls a headless version of Google Chrome. It will save a pdf if the path passed to the save method has a pdf extension.

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puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node API

•    Javascript

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Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium. Note: When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~170Mb Mac, ~282Mb Linux, ~280Mb Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API. To skip the download, see Environment variables.

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serverless-chrome - 🌐 Run headless Chrome/Chromium on AWS Lambda (maybe Azure, & GCP later)

•    Javascript

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Serverless Chrome contains everything you need to get started running headless Chrome on AWS Lambda (possibly Azure and GCP Functions soon). Why? Because it's neat. It also opens up interesting possibilities for using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (and tools like Chromeless or Puppeteer) in serverless architectures and doing testing/CI, web-scraping, pre-rendering, etc.

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breezy-pdf-lite - Simplified, self-hosted, version of breezypdf

•    HTML

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A quick to stand up HTML to PDF service powered by headless Google Chrome. Deploy with one click and start generating PDF's from your web application or command line. BreezyPDF Lite was extracted from BreezyPDF as a light weight alternative for new apps. As your software grows, a 1:1 server instance/render ratio will become slow and limiting.

prerender - Node server that uses Headless Chrome to render a javascript-rendered page as HTML

•    Javascript

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Prerender is a node server that uses Headless Chrome to render HTML, screenshots, PDFs, and HAR files out of any web page. The Prerender server listens for an http request, takes the URL and loads it in Headless Chrome, waits for the page to finish loading by waiting for the network to be idle, and then returns your content. The Prerender server can be used in conjunction with our Prerender.io middleware in order to serve the prerendered HTML of your javascript website to search engines (Google, Bing, etc) and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for SEO. We run the Prerender server at scale for SEO needs at https://prerender.io/.

taiko - A node.js library to automate chrome/chromium browser

•    Javascript

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Taiko is a free and open source browser automation tool built by the team behind Gauge from ThoughtWorks. Taiko is a node library with a clear and concise API to automate the chrome browser. Tests written in Taiko are highly readable and maintainable. Taiko’s smart selectors make tests reliable by adapting to changes in the structure of your web application. With Taiko there’s no need for id/css/xpath selectors or adding explicit waits (for XHR requests) in test scripts.

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cuprite - Headless Chrome driver for Capybara

•    Ruby

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Cuprite is a pure Ruby driver (read as no Java/Selenium/WebDriver/ChromeDriver requirement) for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless Chrome or Chromium by CDP protocol. Under the hood it uses Ferrum which is high-level API to the browser again by CDP protocol. The emphasis was made on raw CDP protocol because Headless Chrome allows you to do so many things that are barely supported by WebDriver because it should have consistent design with other browsers. The design of the driver will be as close to Poltergeist as possible though it's not a goal.

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rendora - dynamic server-side rendering using headless Chrome to effortlessly solve the SEO problem for modern javascript websites

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Rendora can be seen as a reverse HTTP proxy server sitting between your backend server (e.g. Node.js/Express.js, Python/Django, etc...) and potentially your frontend proxy server (e.g. nginx, traefik, apache, etc...) or even directly to the outside world that does actually nothing but transporting requests and responses as they are except when it detects whitelisted requests according to the config. In that case, Rendora instructs a headless Chrome instance to request and render the corresponding page and then return the server-side rendered page back to the client (i.e. the frontend proxy server or the outside world). This simple functionality makes Rendora a powerful dynamic renderer without actually changing anything in both frontend and backend code. Dynamic rendering means that the server provides server-side rendered HTML to web crawlers such as GoogleBot and BingBot and at the same time provides the typical initial HTML to normal users in order to be rendered at the client side. Dynamic rendering is meant to improve SEO for websites written in modern javascript frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, etc...

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pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

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Unofficial Python port of puppeteer JavaScript (headless) chrome/chromium browser automation library. Note: When you run pyppeteer first time, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~100MB). If you don't prefer this behavior, run pyppeteer-install command before running scripts which uses pyppeteer.

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mochify.js - ☕️ TDD with Browserify, Mocha, Headless Chrome and WebDriver

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Browserifies ./test/*.js, decorated with a Mocha test runner, runs it in Headless Chrome and passes the output back to your console. Cleans up your stack traces by mapping back to the original sources and removing lines from the test framework.For proxy settings and other environment variables, see the Puppeteer documentation.

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chrome-headless-browser-docker - Continuously building Chrome Docker image for Linux.

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This repository contains three docker builds. This docker image contains the Linux Dev channel Chromium (https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel), with the required dependencies and the command line argument running headless mode provided.

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chrome-har-capturer - Capture HAR files from a headless Chrome instance

•    Javascript

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Capture HAR files from a headless Chrome instance. Under the hood this module uses chrome-remote-interface to instrument Chrome.

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ReLaXed - Create PDF documents using web technologies

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ReLaXed creates PDF documents interactively using HTML or Pug (a shorthand for HTML). It allows complex layouts to be defined with CSS and JavaScript, while writing the content in a friendly, minimal syntax close to Markdown or LaTeX. ReLaXed has support for Markdown, LaTeX-style mathematical equations (via MathJax), CSV conversion to HTML tables, plot generation (via Vega-Lite or Chart.js), and diagram generation (via mermaid). Many more features can be added simply by importing an existing JavaScript or CSS framework.

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headless-devtools - Lets you perform Chrome DevTools actions from code by leveraging Headless Chrome+Puppeteer

•    Javascript

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Lets you perform Chrome DevTools actions from code by leveraging Headless Chrome+Puppeteer. Chrome DevTools is great for getting valuable information about your app 🕵️‍♂️. Using headless-devtools you can automate this process 🤖. One use-case is to collect this data over time 📈, which can help you keep your app in good health 👩‍⚕️.

chromeless - 🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.

•    TypeScript

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You can try out Chromeless and explore the API in the browser-based demo playground (source).With Chromeless you can control Chrome (open website, click elements, fill out forms...) using an elegant API. This is useful for integration tests or any other scenario where you'd need to script a real browser.

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chromeless - 🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.

•    TypeScript

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You can try out Chromeless and explore the API in the browser-based demo playground (source). With Chromeless you can control Chrome (open website, click elements, fill out forms...) using an elegant API. This is useful for integration tests or any other scenario where you'd need to script a real browser.

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