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