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niccokunzmann / open-web-calendar

Embed a highly customizable web calendar into your website using ICal source links
https://open-web-calendar.quelltext.eu
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Export as image #303

Closed flaschenge1st closed 6 months ago

flaschenge1st commented 6 months ago

Hi there!

Is it possible to "export" the result as an image? Maybe as a feature request? Right now, it's only possible to render the calendar and screenshot the view.

Thank you for any hints!

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vmario89 commented 6 months ago

i guess this will not be a part of the core functionality. Even programs like Grafana do not render their stuff by own. They use some external lib. Maybe use https://phantomjs.org/api/webpage/method/render.html

to render by command, you can use chrome/chromium for example:

"%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --incognito --headless=old --disable-gpu --screenshot=%cd%\calendar.png --window-size=600,800 --virtual-time-budget=15000 --timeout=5000 "https://owc.somewhere.org/calendar.html?url=YOURLURL"

you may need to mess up with the headless and gpu switches to make it work. it depends ;-)

flaschenge1st commented 6 months ago

OK, thank you! I already feared something like this: I guess most of the (cheap) web site packages do not feature a headless chrome install. But that's not OWCs problem, I see! :-)

I close this as "won't fix" - if anyone wants to re-open and fix it: Yay, thank you!

niccokunzmann commented 6 months ago

I was wondering if there is already a service online that can render websites as images. I would have looked for website2png. Hm, I only see this: https://github.com/karanokara/website2png https://www.freeconvert.com/webpage-to-png https://www.i2img.com/url-to-image

I think, as a service this does not need to be tied to the open web calendar but can be used for all other websites, too.

flaschenge1st commented 6 months ago

@niccokunzmann Thank you for the links! I'll give it a try! I found https://htmlcsstoimage.com which also seems to be some kind of solution.