Yet another website screenshot tool
Rabarbar is a simple website screenshot utility based on Qt Web Engine (Chromium), created for Miniature.io.
./rabarbar --url https://github.com --width 640 --height 1136 --out sample.png
./rabarbar --url https://cepa.io --width 1280 --height 1024 --out screenshot.png
./rabarbar --url https://cepa.io --width 1280 --height 1024 --out screenshot.pdf --pdf-orientation=landscape --pdf-paper-size=a4
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | yes | Website URL address. |
| out | yes | Output filename. |
| width | no | Screenshot width in pixels, default 1024. |
| height | no | Screenshot height in pixels, default 1024. |
| delay | no | Number of seconds to wait before grabbing a shot once the website is fully loaded. |
| timeout | no | Max wait time for a page to be loaded in seconds. |
| user-agent | no | Custom browser user agent. |
| referer | no | Custom referer. |
| pdf-orientation | no | PDF orientation (portrait, landscape). |
| pdf-paper-size | no | PDF paper size (a3, a4, letter, tabloid). |
This app has been built and tested with Qt6 on Ubuntu 22.
apt-get install build-essential qt6-base-dev qt6-webengine-dev libqt6webenginecore6-bin libqt6opengl6-dev qmake6 xvfb
git clone https://github.com/cepa/rabarbar
cd rabarbar
qmake6
make
./rabarbar --url https://openai.com/ --width 512 --height 512 --out sample.png
Rabarbar works in headless mode with Xvfb.
xvfb-run -a ./rabarbar --url https://google.com --width 1280 --height 1024 --out screenshot.png
You can build and run Rabarbar to render websites in Docker.
docker build -t rabarbar .
Run
docker run -v ./:/out rabarbar --url http://openai.com --out /out/openai.png
- Referer header can be ignored by Chromium due to internal policies, consider this feature experimental.
- Code may be built with Qt5 however there were some issues reported with QWebEngine on Ubuntu.