website-screenshot

📸 website screenshots as a service

Features

• 💫 powered by Rust
• 🚀 blazing fast
• 👮​​​‍‍​ built-in ratelimiter
• 👜 built-in storage providers
• 🛡️ built-in authentication
• 🗼 configurable

Deployment

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.61 or greater
• Redis 6 or greater
• Chrome browser
• Chromedriver (must match with the version your Chrome browser)

Environment Variables

• PORT - the port that the application will run (optional, defaults to 3000)
• REDIS_URL - the address of your redis database (required)
• FULLSCREEN_SCREENSHOT - if set, it will screenshot the whole website (optional)
• CHECK_IF_NSFW - if set, it will check if the url is marked as NSFW (optional)
• GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH - the path to the chrome executable (optional)
• CHROMEDRIVER_ADDRESS - the address on where chromedriver is listening (optional, defaults to http://localhost:9515)
• DARK_MODE - if set, it will take screenshots in dark mode, if the website supports it (optional)
• FORCE_NSFW_CHECK - if set, force NSFW check (optional)
• FORCE_DARK_MODE - if set, force dark mode (optional)
• CHROME_FLAGS - additional flags to provide to chrome (optional, example: --a,--b,-c)

Railway

Changing Providers

To change the provider in railway:

1. Open the repo that railway made for you.
2. Open the Dockerfile
3. Edit lines 39 and 44 with fleet build --release --no-default-features --features <your_provider>.
4. Deploy your app again.

Pre-built Binaries

⚠️- You can't change the provider when using the pre-built binaries.

Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devtomio/website-screenshot/main/install.sh

Other

See the Releases page of this repository and download the appropriate binary.

Docker

⚠️- You can't change the provider when using the docker image.

A dockerized version of this application is available here.

Building from source

1. Clone this repository. e.g. git clone https://github.com/devtomio/website-screenshot
2. Build the binary cargo build --release
3. Start chromedriver in the background chromedriver &
4. Run the app ./target/release/website-screenshot

Authentication

Authentication will be enabled if the AUTH_TOKEN variable is set.

It will check if the Authorization header sent by the user is equal to the AUTH_TOKEN that you set.

Storage Providers

Fs (Filesystem) Provider

📝 - This is the default provider.

Build Command

cargo build --release

Cloudinary Provider

📝 - You must make an unsigned upload preset.

Environment Variables

• CLOUDINARY_API_KEY - your api key (required)
• CLOUDINARY_UPLOAD_PRESET - the name of your unsigned upload preset (required)
• CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME - the cloud name that you set during registration (required)

Build Command

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features cloudinary_provider

Amazon AWS S3 Provider

⚠️ - This is untested. If you encounter a bug please don't hesitate to open an issue.

Environment Variables

• S3_BUCKET_NAME - the name of your s3 bucket (required)
• S3_REGION - the region of your s3 bucket (required, only optional if using self-hosted s3)
• S3_ACCESS_KEY - your access key (required)
• S3_SECRET_KEY - your secret key (required)
• S3_SECURITY_TOKEN - your security token (optional)
• S3_SESSION_TOKEN - your session token (optional)

Self-hosted S3 Storage

To use a self-hosted S3 Storage, set the S3_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable to the endpoint url.

Build Command

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features s3_provider

Tixte Provider

Environment Variables

• TIXTE_UPLOAD_KEY - your upload key, can be found on the integrations tab (required)
• TIXTE_DOMAIN_CONFIG - whether to use random domains or a specific domain (required, can only be standard, or random)
• TIXTE_CUSTOM_DOMAIN - the specific domain to use (only required when TIXTE_DOMAIN_CONFIG is set to standard)

Build Command

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features tixte_provider

Sled Provider

Environment Variables

• SLED_PATH - the path to provide when opening the sled database (optional, defaults to .website-screenshot)

Build Command

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features sled_provider

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Tomio 💻 📖 🚇 🚧

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!