url2png gem

What is it?

A Ruby gem wrapping the url2png.com API.

Who should use it?

Any Ruby on Rails developer who wants/needs to generate screenshots from sites using url2png.com.

Usage

Installation

gem install url2png

Configuration

First define your public key and shared secret:

Url2png::Config.public_key = 'PXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
Url2png::Config.shared_secret = 'SXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'

If you are generating local urls in development you can use a placeholder or dummy image. This is done by setting the mode:

Url2png::Config.mode = :placehold if Rails.env.development?

Options are:

:production (default; will use the url2png api to generate images)
:placehold (will generate images at http://placehold.it)
:dummy (will give a grey base64 data image)

In Rails you probably want to do configuration in an initializer.

Helpers

Generate an image tag:

site_image_tag url, [options]

Options are the same as the image_tag in Rails.

By default the size is set to 400 x 400 px. To generate an image with a specific size:

site_image_tag url, :size => '300x200'

To only get the image url:

site_image_url url, :size => '300x200'

Options are:

:size
This is a proportion bounding box.
Thumbnails will be resized to fit within this box.
default: 'ORIGINAL'
examples:

site_image_tag url, :size => '500x500'

site_image_tag url, :size => 'ORIGINAL'

:thumbnail (alias for :size)

:browser_size
Set the initial browser screen size.
default: '1024x768'
min: '200x200'
max: '4000x4000'
example:

site_image_tag url, :size => '300x200', :browser_size => '1024x2500'

:delay
Extra delay (in seconds) forced between page load and screenshot.
default: 1
min: 1
max: 5
example:

site_image_tag url, :size => '300x200', :delay => 2

:fullscreen
When true, Will attempt to capture entire document canvas.
Will never return screenshot smaller than "Initial Screen Size".
default: false
example:

site_image_tag url, :size => '300x200', :fullscreen => true

Original API docs: https://url2png.com/doc/

API Version

From version 0.1.0 and up this gem is using version 4 of the url2png API.
Version 0.0.7 is the last one using version 3 of the API.

Important

This gem is written for Rails 3. Rails 2 might work but it's not tested.

Note that this gem is still under development.

Contributing to url2png

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

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