Browserstack Screenshots API

App to generate screenshots given a CSV with a list of URLS

• create user accounts and profile
• select enabled browsers
• schedule jobs to run at any time
• View screenshots by project name
• Email notifications when last job in a project is started

Demo

http://youtu.be/6Y349Zugnmo

Setup and Installation

Required Software

• LAMP: MySQL, PHP >= 5.4, MCrypt PHP Extension
• Composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
• Beanstalk http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/download.html
• Beanstalk console https://github.com/ptrofimov/beanstalk_console
• Supervisor http://supervisord.org/installing.html
• Mandrill Key https://mandrill.com/
• Browserstack Screenshots API usr/pwd http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/api
• Example configuration file .env.example.php should be updated and copied over to corresponding file. For example, .env.prod.php (based on APP_ENV environment variable)

Configuration

1. copy .env.example.php to .env.php
2. fill in blanks in .env.php with correct info: keys, email etc
3. edit apache config for the site (On Ubuntu it's located in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/automation.conf in my case)
4. add the following: SetEnv APP_ENV production
5. restart apache (On Ubuntu command is: sudo service apache2 restart )

Installation

composer install
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

Refresh Browser List

php artisan db:seed --class="BrowserTableSeeder"

Configure Supervisor

Restarting

sudo service supervisor start
sudo supervisorctl reload

/etc/supervisor/conf.d/queue.conf

[program:queue]
command=php artisan queue:listen
directory=/home/vagrant/laravel-root/automation
stdout_logfile=/home/vagrant/laravel-root/automation/app/storage/logs/supervisor.log
redirect_stderr=true

supervisorctl

supervisor> status
supervisor> reread
queue: available
supervisor> add queue
queue: added process group
supervisor> start queue
queue: ERROR (already started)
supervisor> status
queue                            RUNNING    pid 27174, uptime 0:00:11

Recommendations

• Local installations should use homestead, as it provides ready to use system http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead
• Digitalocean provides LAMP image with most software pre-installed. Feel free to use a referral link for a $10 credit: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=40a47f269a5b

Documentation for the entire framework can be found on the Laravel website.