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Fix the Puppeteer "Execution context was destroyed, most likely because of a navigation" error after click, form submit, redirect, reload, or page.evaluate.
You can take a full page screenshot with Pupeeter by specifying the `fullPage` parameter as true when taking a screenshot. But there is a caveat. If a site has lazy-loaded images, they won't be rendered. Let's examine how to fix the issue and trigger lazy image loading with Puppeteer.
We can consider the screenshot of URL or HTML as a thumbnail, but I write about the thumbnail of a screenshot. How do you take a screenshot within the defined viewport but with different image width and height? Resize!
Puppeteer, by default, supports only four formats for taking screenshots or rendering HTML: PNG, JPEG, WebP, and PDF. But what if you want it to take it in a different format like GIF, JP2, TIFF, AVIF, HEIF, or SVG?
Join me in exploring how to find the ideal wait time or event of when to take the page screenshot with Puppeteer.
In this note, I share how I take website screenshots or render HTML and upload the resulted images or PDF to any S3-compatible storage like Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, or Backblaze B2.
Use Puppeteer or screenshot API to generate the Open Graph protocol images, bills, receipts, or invoices PDF or PNG files from the HTML templates.
How to add custom scripts to a page in Puppeteer. Let's discover how it works quickly."
To add custom styles to any page use Puppeteer's page method `page.addStyleTag(options)`. Let's discover how it works quickly.
The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with PHP by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, or screenshot API as a service.
The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with Javascript and TypeScript (Node.js) by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, Playwright, or screenshot API as a service.
The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with Java by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, Playwright, or screenshot API as a service.
Exhaustive documentation, ready SDKs, no-code tools, and other automation to help you render website screenshots and outsource all the boring work related to that to us.