Puppeteer (Chrome headless node API) based web page renderer.

Useful server side rendering through proxy. Outputs HTML, PDF and screenshots as PNG.

You can run Chromium or docker.

npm install

npm start

(service port: 3000)

docker run -d --name renderer -p 8080:3000 zenato/puppeteer-renderer

Input url http://localhost:{port}/?url=https://www.google.com

If you can see html code, server works fine.

If you have active service, set proxy configuration with middleware. See puppeteer-renderer-middleware for express.

const renderer = require('puppeteer-renderer-middleware');

const app = express();

app.use(renderer({
  url: 'http://installed-your-puppeteer-renderer-url',
  // userAgentPattern: /My-Custom-Agent/i,
  // excludeUrlPattern: /*.html$/i
  // timeout: 30 * 1000,
}));

// your service logics..

app.listen(8080);

Generated PDFs are returned with a Content-disposition header requesting the browser to download the file instead of showing it. The file name is generated from the URL rendered:

MIT

Copyright (c) 2017-present, Yeongjin Lee