Automated Programmatic Website Screenshots in R with {webshot} [Video Tutorial]
[This article was first published on r-bloggers on Programming with R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
In this video tutorial, We explore the R package {webshot} by Winston Chang. This package internally uses phantom js to capture screenshot of web pages / websites, Shiny Applications, RMarkdown documents.
{webshot} also lets you take screenshot of a particular viewport or a section of website selected by css selector.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/oQKwd1cgiq4
Please subscribe and leave a comment if you have any feedback. I’m new for this Video making so any suggestion/feedback to improve would be a great benefit!
Please create an R project before trying this out, it makes life simpler in dealing with directories.
Code
Install package from CRAN using install.packages("webshot"). Reference – https://github.com/wch/webshot
library(webshot)
# webshot::install_phantomjs()
webshot(url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/", file = "hn.png",
zoom = 2)
webshot(url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/", file = "hn.pdf")
webshot(url = "https://www.anaconda.com/",
selector = ".hero-main",
file = "anaconda.png")
To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: r-bloggers on Programming with R.
R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.