statically

Generate Webpage Screenshots Using the Statically API

Description

Statically (https://statically.io/screenshot/) maintains a free API to generate screenshots of webpages. Tools are provided to capture website screenshots using this API.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• generate_screenshot: Generate a webpage screenshot

Installation

install.packages("statically", repos = "https://cinc.rud.is")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/statically.git")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/statically")
# or
remotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/statically")
# or
remotes::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/statically")
# or
remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/statically")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(statically)

# current version
packageVersion("statically")
## [1] '0.1.0'

Default:

generate_screenshot("https://www.latimes.com/")

Mobile:

generate_screenshot("https://www.latimes.com/", mobile = TRUE)

Full page (not shown b/c it’s super duper long):

generate_screenshot("https://rud.is/b", full_page = TRUE)

statically Metrics

Lang	# Files	(%)	LoC	(%)	Blank lines	(%)	# Lines	(%)
R	4	0.8	38	0.78	11	0.34	29	0.44
Rmd	1	0.2	11	0.22	21	0.66	37	0.56

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.