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ScreenshotMachine

A gem to create screenshots of webpages by using the ScreenshotMachine.com API.

You will need a (free) account to get started.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'screenshot_machine'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install screenshot_machine

Usage

Using ScreenshotMachine is quite simple

require 'screenshot_machine'

ScreenshotMachine.configure do |config|
  config.key = '012345abcdefg'
end

website_url = "http://google.com/?q=great+gem"
sm = ScreenshotMachine.new(website_url)
# Returns a binary stream of the file
sm.screenshot

You can also config all API Parameters

require 'screenshot_machine'

ScreenshotMachine.configure do |config|
  config.key        = '012345abcdefg'
  config.size       = 'X'
  config.format     = 'PNG'
  config.cacheLimit = 2
  config.timeout    = 400
end

Exceptions

# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::InvalidUrl
# Raised when the website_url can not be resolved by ScreenshotMachine.com.
ScreenshotMachine.new("http://non-existing-example123.com").screenshot
# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::InvalidUrl: WARNING: Invalid URL

# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::InvalidKey
# Raised when your API key is not set or invalid.
ScreenshotMachine.new("http://non-existing-example123.com").screenshot
# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::InvalidKey: ERROR: Invalid API KEY

# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::NoCredits
# Raised when there are not sufficient credits in your ScreenshotMachine.com account.
ScreenshotMachine.new("http://example.com").screenshot
# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::NoCredits: ERROR: No Credits for API

# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::SystemError
# Raised when the API returns system_error.
ScreenshotMachine.new("http://example.com").screenshot
# ScreenshotMachine::Exceptions::SystemError: ERROR: API System Error

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

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