📦 phil294 / websnapper

Try out and use online

You can use this software online: http://websnapper.waritschlager.de/howto

For detailed information about what all of this is, please go to this link or see the file howto.html.

Example of what this software does, a 800x600 comparison of a scrolled down section of GitHub.com: in this case, 1.1 KB vs. 36 KB

Reddit discussion thread for some more details

... or run the server locally

Docker image

Simply run e.g.

docker run -p 80:8080 --rm -it --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN phil294/websnapper

Then, you can access in your browser at localhost/howto the same page as above, just locally.

Manual installation

To run this software yourself, here is what you need to do, for example on a VM, docker image, v-server or locally:

• Have nodejs and npm or yarn installed (using yarn below)
• Install the system dependencies for puppeteer: sudo apt install -y 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 (source)
• Make the package manager install the dependencies: yarn. This will also download a specific chromium browser module into your node_modules folder
• Run the server e.g. with PORT=7001 yarn run start

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For JS to work, remove this line in your local version.