remolueoend/flaschentaschen-web

A small CLI tool for rendering websites on a remote flaschentaschen server

flaschentaschen-web

A small CLI tool for rendering websites on a remote flaschentaschen server:

It uses a headless chrome instance to get a stream of screen captures, transforms them to PPM file blobs and sends them to a remote flaschentaschen server.

Setup

Following build dependencies must be installed:

• Rust stable toolchain

After that, clone this repository, navigate into the project root and run:

cargo build [--release]

You will then find the CLI executable at <project-root>/target/release/flaschentaschen-web

Usage

$ ./flaschentaschen-web --help

USAGE:
    flaschentaschen-web [OPTIONS] --url <URL> --ft-endpoint <FT_ENDPOINT> --screen-width <SCREEN_WIDTH> --screen-height <SCREEN_HEIGHT>

OPTIONS:
        --ft-endpoint <FT_ENDPOINT>
            The host/port address of the target flaschentaschen server, e.g. localhost:1337

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --screen-height <SCREEN_HEIGHT>
            The height of the LED screen (in pixels)

        --screen-width <SCREEN_WIDTH>
            The width of the LED screen (in pixels)

    -u, --url <URL>
            The URL of the website to screencast

    -v, --verbosity
            Set the level of verbosity (add multiple to increase level, e.g. -vvv)

    -V, --version
            Print version information

Make sure your flaschentaschen server and the website to render are accessible before running flaschentaschen-web. Big thanks to Henner Zeller for his amazing projects!

Development

Cross-compile for the RaspberryPi platform

Follow the README at ./tools/build-rspi