Ruby Webshot

ruby_webshot

Simple ruby gem for making nice webshots with headless browser - RubyWebshot Gem on RubyGems.org

Here is a short Video Tutorial How To use Ruby Webshot Gem inside Ruby Console.

I needed the webshot/screenshot functionality for one of my website and after trying few ruby gems currently available I found that they are not updated lately and that they are using depricated version of PhantomJs:

• webshot
• screenshot

Also, I had an issue with produced image CSS formating when I used webshot gem.

So, I decided to start building a gem for myself and to share for anyone who need something like this. The Ruby Webshot Gem use latest Webdrivers.

Add gem to your gem file like:

    gem 'ruby_webshot'

or run in console:

    gem install ruby_webshot

The gem was built on Ruby 2.6.4 on Ubuntu 18.04 OS. You will probably need to install selenium-webdriver.

To install it on debian based os use:

sudo gem install selenium-webdriver

Also, you should have installed google-chrome. I have used this list of command on my NON GUI Ubuntu 18.04 production OS.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libappindicator1 fonts-liberation
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb

To use the gem inside your Rails project you need to install gem by adding it inside Gemfile as gem 'ruby_webshot' or inside your console with gem install ruby_webshot command.

Inside your Rails project controller you need to add gem by referencing it as:

require 'ruby_webshot'

and call it as:

  RubyWebshot.call("https://rubyonrails.ba")

you will note here that only parameter required to take website webshot is URL to website/webpage.

With call above you will take webshot of home page of site RubyOnRails.BA Webshot will be saved inside root dir of your Rails project with dimensions width:860 height:860 and file name generated from current date/time in format as: 20-12-2019-162436.png

Currently, there are few params which you can override and they are: :save_file_path, :file_name, :width,:height:

 RubyWebshot.call("https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezir/",{:save_file_path=> "/home/someuser/somedir", :file_name =>"home.png"})

or

 RubyWebshot.call("https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezir/",{:save_file_path=> "/home/someuser/somedir", :file_name =>"home.png", :width => 500,:height => 500})

Here is a short Video Tutorial How To use Ruby Webshot Gem inside Ruby Console: