burningTyger / puppeteer-renderer

Puppeteer(Chrome headless node API) based web page renderer

Puppeteer(Chrome headless node API) based web page renderer

Puppeteer(Chrome headless node API) based web page renderer.

Useful server side rendering through proxy.

Requirements

You can run Chromium or docker.

Getting Started

Install dependencies.

npm install

Start server (If you can run Chromium)

npm start

(service port: 3000)

Start server using docker (If you can not run Chromium and installed docker)

docker run -d --name renderer -p 8080:3000 zenato/puppeteer-renderer

Test on your browser

Input url http://localhost:{port}/?url=https://www.google.com

If you can see html code, server works fine.

Integration with existing service.

If you have active service, set proxy configuration with middleware. See puppeteer-renderer-middleware for express.

const renderer = require('puppeteer-renderer-middleware');

const app = express();

app.use(renderer({
  url: 'http://installed-your-puppeterr-renderer-url',
  // userAgentPattern: /My-Custom-Agent/i,
  // excludeUrlPattern: /*.html$/i
  // timeout: 30 * 1000,
}));

// your service logics..

app.listen(8080);

API

Name	Required	Value	Description	Usage
url	O		Target URL	http://puppeterr-renderer?url=http://www.google.com
type		(pdf|screenshot)	Rendering another type.	http://puppeterr-renderer?url=http://www.google.com&type=pdf