screenshots with Chrome Headless on a mac

Posted 2 years ago - updated 2 years ago webscraping chrome

• run chrome from commandline

alias chrome="/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome"

• Example fullpage size

chrome --headless --disable-gpu --fullPage --window-size=1200,8080 --screenshot=filename.png https://www.guardian.co.uk

• Chrome HEadless with basic auth

chrome --headless --disable-gpu --fullPage --window-size=1200,8080 --screenshot=filename.png "https://username:password@www.rennetti.com"

• Chrome Headless PDF

chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf --screenshot=filename.pdf https://www.guardian.co.uk