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html2canvas

JavaScript library to take "screenshots" of webpages or parts of it, directly on the...

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    2019-09-15

Features & Specs

  1. Client-Side Rendering

    html2canvas is a client-side library that can capture screenshots of web pages without requiring server-side processing, making it easy to integrate into web applications.

  2. Open-Source

    Being open-source, developers have access to the source code, allowing them to modify and contribute to the project, ensuring transparency and community-driven improvements.

  3. Ease of Use

    It provides a straightforward API, making it accessible for developers to quickly implement and use the library to capture screenshots.

  4. Cross-Browser Support

    The library aims to support multiple browsers, enhancing its usability across different user platforms.

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  • Build a Finance Tracker with Next.js, Strapi, and Chartjs: Part 3
    We'll use three libraries - html-to-pdfmake, pdfmake and html2canvas for the printing functionality. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
  • Build a Finance Tracker with Next.js, Strapi, and Chartjs: Part 1
    Html2canvas to take screenshots of the webpage directly on the browser. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
  • This weird IFRAME thing wasted my 2 days (and counting...)
    My new approach: Whenever user will open the preview and it would load completely, I will take a screenshot programatically using html2canvas library and later store in the db. I wrote code and it worked as I thought except for one part. Everything was fine in the screenshot, except the preview part. IT WAS BLANK, LIKE COMPLETELY BLANK. Oh my god! How is this possible? What on earth is wrong that every solution I... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago
  • A Firefox-Only Minimap
    That's slightly harder, but still possible by first rendering the HTML onto a canvas. Example here: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • Adding text to image that scales to fit container?
    If you have it working in the browser you could use this.https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/. Source: about 2 years ago
  • How to setup a email/print option
    Use http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ to convert the div to an image if you want. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Show HN: Auto generate images from Figma using an API
    This looks super useful! I’ve previously used [html2canvas](https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/) to make a simple tool for generating graphics for a news org, but I can see myself using this going forward. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • Take a screenshot of a webpage
    You can use html2canvas, but it is not for taking screenshots. It is more about generating an image from HTML. And the library not always perfectly renders since it is done manually in code. Source: over 2 years ago
  • A simple but nice header generator for your Github profile
    The styles are set with VanillaJS and html2canvas is used to render the code as image. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago
  • How would I go about grabbing a frame from an embedded youtube stream to manipulate further?
    My research so far suggests a tool like html2canvas would be our best bet. Only issue is that this tool and those like it seem unable to access cross origin data, which our embedded stream would be. Source: over 3 years ago
  • Building a Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Workers
    Under the hood, we use html2canvas to get the screenshot. I go over more on why in the Alternative Solutions section. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago
  • Is there an easy way to produce a screenshot of my app programmatically in my React App?
    Check out http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ it's agnostic and might work for your use case. Source: over 3 years ago
  • Appending a PowerPoint to another PowerPoint
    Https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ - converting html to a canvas and taking a screenshot? Source: over 3 years ago
  • Take Screenshot Of HTML Element Using JavaScript
    A few months back, I was working on a web-based project where a feature was required that is to take a screenshot of an HTML div in the browser and show it to the user. I was like, sorry this is not possible. Then I did some research and got to know about this library called html2canvas. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago
  • Is there a way to share images on the web to various social platforms? If so, possible to do with images that are generated on the fly?
    I'm trying to use the html2canvas to generate an image on the fly from markup on the page. I'd then like the user to have the ability to share their generated image out to social. I think this is a two-fold question. Source: almost 4 years ago
  • How to track client-side JavaScript errors
    You can also grab a screenshot by using html2canvas. Source: about 4 years ago

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