chromesnap

Headless Chrome screenshot tool and Go library, built on chromedp.

Requirements

Chrome or Chromium must be installed on your system. chromesnap will find it automatically, or you can specify the path with --chrome.

Installation

go install github.com/normal-coder/chromesnap/cmd/chromesnap@latest

CLI

Single page

# Basic
chromesnap https://example.com

# Full page
chromesnap https://example.com -F -o full.png

# Mobile device
chromesnap https://example.com -e iPhone-15 -o mobile.png

# Dark mode, JPEG
chromesnap https://example.com -D -f jpeg -o dark.jpg

# Capture a specific element
chromesnap https://example.com -s "#hero" -o hero.png

# Wait for element, then delay
chromesnap https://example.com -w "#app" -d 1s -o app.png

# Inject JS and CSS before capture
chromesnap https://example.com --js "document.querySelector('.banner').remove()" --css "body{zoom:0.8}"

# Pipe to another command
chromesnap https://example.com --stdout | convert - result.webp

Batch

# From a file (one URL per line, # for comments)
chromesnap batch urls.txt -o ./shots/

# From inline list
chromesnap batch --urls "https://a.com,https://b.com" -o ./shots/

# Custom concurrency, continue on error, JSON summary
chromesnap batch urls.txt -o ./shots/ -p 5 --continue-on-error -j

# Custom file naming: {index}, {host}, {ts}
chromesnap batch urls.txt -o ./shots/ -n "{index}_{host}"

Global flags

Flag	Short	Default	Description
--chrome		auto	Chrome/Chromium executable path
--remote			Remote CDP URL ws://localhost:9222
--no-headless		false	Disable headless mode
--proxy			Proxy server URL
--ignore-cert-errors		false	Ignore TLS certificate errors
--timeout	-t	30s	Per-page timeout
--quiet	-q	false	Suppress log output

Snap flags

Flag	Short	Default	Description
--output	-o	screenshot.png	Output file path
--format	-f	png	png / jpeg / webp / pdf
--quality		85	JPEG/WebP quality (1–100)
--stdout		false	Write to stdout
--json	-j	false	Print JSON metadata to stderr
--width	-W	1920	Viewport width
--height	-H	1080	Viewport height
--device	-e		Device preset
--dpr		1.0	Device pixel ratio
--dark-mode	-D	false	prefers-color-scheme: dark
--full-page	-F	false	Capture full scrollable page
--selector	-s		Capture a CSS selector element
--clip			Capture region x,y,width,height
--wait-for	-w		Wait for CSS selector
--wait-network		false	Wait for network idle
--delay	-d		Extra wait after load
--js			Execute JavaScript after load
--css			Inject CSS into page
--basic-auth			HTTP basic auth user:pass
--header			Custom request header (repeatable)
--cookie	-c		Set cookie (repeatable)
--user-agent	-A		Custom User-Agent

Device presets

Name	Resolution	DPR
iPhone-15	390×844	3
iPhone-15-Pro-Max	430×932	3
iPad-Pro	1024×1366	2
Pixel-7	412×915	2.625
Galaxy-S23	360×780	3
MacBook-Air	1280×800	2
Desktop-1080p	1920×1080	1
Desktop-4K	3840×2160	1

Shell completion

# Zsh
chromesnap completion zsh > ~/.zsh/completions/_chromesnap

# Bash
chromesnap completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/chromesnap

Go library

go get normalcoder.com/chromesnap

Quick start

import "normalcoder.com/chromesnap/snap"

// Returns []byte
buf, err := snap.Capture("https://example.com")

// Save to file
err := snap.CaptureToFile("https://example.com", "result.png")

With options

buf, err := snap.Capture("https://example.com",
    snap.WithViewport(1440, 900),
    snap.WithFullPage(),
    snap.WithFormat(snap.FormatJPEG),
    snap.WithQuality(90),
    snap.WithDarkMode(),
    snap.WithWaitFor("#app"),
    snap.WithDelay(1 * time.Second),
    snap.WithJS("document.querySelector('.cookie-banner').remove()"),
    snap.WithHeader("Authorization", "Bearer TOKEN"),
)

Device presets

buf, err := snap.Capture("https://example.com",
    snap.WithDevice(snap.DeviceiPhone15),
)

Reuse browser across captures

browser, err := snap.NewBrowser(
    snap.WithChromePath("/usr/bin/google-chrome"),
)
defer browser.Close()

buf1, err := browser.Capture("https://a.com", snap.WithFullPage())
buf2, err := browser.Capture("https://b.com", snap.WithDevice(snap.DeviceiPhone15))

results, err := browser.CaptureAll([]string{
    "https://a.com",
    "https://b.com",
}, snap.WithConcurrency(5))

License

MIT