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How to turn HTML webpage into an Image?

Jasmin Virdi on April 10, 2022

While working in one of my project I had to implement a feature where I have turn an HTML webpage to an Image. The first thought that occurred to m...
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ImTheDeveloper

I imagine the use case was for automation rather than manually doing so.

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peerreynders • Edited

Puppeteer: page.screenshot()
Playwright: page.screenshot()
Cypress: cy.screenshot()

Interesting use of Web APIs regardless

CanvasRenderingContext2D.drawImage()
HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL()

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Jasmin Virdi

Thanks for mentioning 🙌

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Racheal Walker

hey,
i like your approach but you can also try doing this.

Upload html-file(s) Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.
Choose "to jpg" Choose jpg or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)
Download your jpg.

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Jasmin Virdi

You can definitely try this way but I want to cover the case where you have to do it via Code.

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peerreynders

That's the Google featured snippet you get when you search "How to turn HTML webpage into an Image?" (i.e. the title of the article) - which isn''t that useful without the website where it came from.

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Jasmin Virdi

Definitely, you can do this manually. My intention was to state an approach when you have to automate it or do it via code without using any library.👍

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Emeka Orji

This is so needed,
I was encountered with the problem of creating a card in 'img' format from information that a user inputs into a form

So this makes sense as I can dynamically add the user-input into the svg/canvas and print an image

ALL WITHOUT USING AN EXTERNAL LIBRARY😒!!!

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Sefat Anam

from my point of view - OMGGGGG !

  • i'm backend dev :)
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Jasmin Virdi

🙌

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max

Or chrome extension "go full page".
You can print as PNG or PDF ;)

Nice article though, I liked the writing

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Jasmin Virdi

Definitely, there could be other ways but I wanted to try using plain JS

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max

No problem, if it was for discovery reasons ou just see if it waws possible :)

The security aspect is nice, it could be used as a deep sanitize ^^

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Medea

woah nice!

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Jasmin Virdi

Thanks 🙂

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Timmortal

As a programmer, I think think it's great to know how to use codes to achieve this.

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Bruno

Thank you for writing this

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skywarth • Edited

Fascinating. Can you please explain why we have to use 'xmlns' attribute.

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Randell Knight

Wow, this is so cool. Thanks for sharing!