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wch / webshot

Take screenshots of web pages from R
http://wch.github.io/webshot/
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PhantomJS Archived #75

Closed chris-prener closed 5 years ago

chris-prener commented 5 years ago

I wanted to ask about the reliance on PhantomJS that webshot provides to knitr. I saw today that PhantomJS has been archived, and was wondering if there were plans in place to continue to support embedded screen-shots from HTML widgets in knitr. Everything seems to work OK right now, but am wondering about the future. Thanks for your thoughts on this!

znmeb commented 5 years ago

I wonder if Selenium WebDriver can do this. It's becoming a W3C standard (as "WebDriver" - https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/) and there are already R packages that can drive it (http://ropensci.github.io/RSelenium/).

wch commented 5 years ago

We're currently working on something that will eliminate the need for PhantomJS, so stay tuned...

chris-prener commented 5 years ago

Awesome - thanks @wch!

randomgambit commented 5 years ago

hello there! any updates on this? I cannot install phantomJS in my corporate environment... :( THanks!

wch commented 5 years ago

@randomgambit Hopefully we'll have something available in the next couple of months.

randomgambit commented 5 years ago

@wch hi there! are we making good progress here? :D

wch commented 5 years ago

@randomgambit Check out https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2 and let us know how it goes.

randomgambit commented 5 years ago

a cool stuff!! thanks buddy i ll try asap