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node-image-from-html

Convert HTML data into images, with a persistant headless browser!

Features

Speed - Unlike most other libraries, this insures the headless browser stays alive, and wastes no time re-launching.
Concurrency - Allows for one browser to spawn multiple tabs, shifting the workload to them if one is active.
ID or Full-Page selection options.
Default Background Transparency.
Raw Base64 Output

Example

const ImageFromHtml = require("node-image-from-html");
const fs = require("fs");

(async () => {

    const Handler = new ImageFromHtml.BrowserHandler(1, { headless: true })

    await Handler.start()

    // Regardless of the position or the padding around the element, the screenshot will always be of the div in question. In this case, "entry".
    let base64 = await Handler.render(`<div id="entry" style="width:100px;height:100px;padding:300px;background-color:blue"></div>`, "entry")

    fs.writeFileSync("myImage.png", base64, {encoding: "base64"})

})()

Efficiency?

This library was designed with heavy load in mind, Tested with 10 concurrent tabs and a load of 1000 images, 6.32 seconds spent rendering.

To-Do

Add Event-Emitter based polling
Add support for multiple browsers, not just tabs
Add the ability to dynamically add tabs for larger loads, and remove some in lighter loads.

Can I make a PR?

Please! Any and all improvements are welcome, I have no guidelines, just make sure to document everything decently via JSDocs, and don't use implied any statements.

Usage no npm install needed!