Laravel Screenshot

Laravel Screenshot

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user needs to take screenshots of web pages in a Laravel application using spatie/laravel-screenshot. This includes taking screenshots of URLs or HTML, customizing viewport size and image format, saving to filesystem disks, queued screenshot generation, testing screenshots, and configuring drivers.

Taking screenshots

Screenshot a URL:

use Spatie\LaravelScreenshot\Facades\Screenshot;

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')->save('screenshot.png');

Screenshot raw HTML:

Screenshot::html('<h1>Hello world!</h1>')->save('hello.png');

Customizing screenshots

Viewport size

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->width(1920)->height(1080)
    ->save('screenshot.png');

// Or use size() as shorthand:
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->size(1920, 1080)
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Image format

The format is determined from the file extension: .png, .jpg/.jpeg, .webp.

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')->save('screenshot.jpg');
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')->save('screenshot.webp');

Image quality

For JPEG and WebP (0-100):

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->quality(80)
    ->save('screenshot.jpg');

Device scale factor

Default is 2x (retina):

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->deviceScaleFactor(1)
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Full page screenshots

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->fullPage()
    ->save('full-page.png');

Element screenshots

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->selector('.hero-section')
    ->save('hero.png');

Clip region

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->clip(0, 0, 800, 600)
    ->save('clipped.png');

Transparent background

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->selector('.logo')
    ->omitBackground()
    ->save('logo.png');

Wait strategies

// Wait for network idle
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->waitUntil('networkidle0')
    ->save('screenshot.png');

// Wait for a CSS selector
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->waitForSelector('.content-loaded')
    ->save('screenshot.png');

// Wait for a duration (ms)
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->waitForTimeout(3000)
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Conditional customization

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->when($needsFullPage, fn ($screenshot) => $screenshot->fullPage())
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Saving to disks

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->disk('s3')
    ->save('screenshots/homepage.png');

// With visibility:
Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->disk('s3', 'public')
    ->save('screenshots/homepage.png');

Base64

$base64 = Screenshot::url('https://example.com')->base64();

Drivers

The package supports two drivers: browsershot (default) and cloudflare.

Set the driver via LARAVEL_SCREENSHOT_DRIVER env variable or in config/laravel-screenshot.php.

Browsershot driver

Requires spatie/browsershot installed separately:

composer require spatie/browsershot

Customize the Browsershot instance per screenshot:

use Spatie\Browsershot\Browsershot;

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->withBrowsershot(function (Browsershot $browsershot) {
        $browsershot
            ->setExtraHttpHeaders(['Authorization' => 'Bearer token'])
            ->userAgent('My Custom User Agent');
    })
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Cloudflare driver

Uses Cloudflare's Browser Rendering API. No Node.js or Chrome binary needed.

LARAVEL_SCREENSHOT_DRIVER=cloudflare
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=your-api-token
CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id

The Cloudflare driver does not support withBrowsershot().

Switch driver per screenshot:

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->driver('cloudflare')
    ->save('screenshot.png');

Queued screenshot generation

Dispatch screenshot generation to a background queue:

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->saveQueued('screenshot.png')
    ->then(fn (string $path, ?string $diskName) => Mail::to($user)->send(new ScreenshotMail($path)))
    ->catch(fn (Throwable $e) => Log::error($e->getMessage()));

Configure queue and connection:

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->saveQueued('screenshot.png')
    ->onQueue('screenshots')
    ->onConnection('redis')
    ->delay(now()->addMinutes(5));

With disk:

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')
    ->disk('s3')
    ->saveQueued('screenshots/homepage.png');

Note: saveQueued() cannot be used with withBrowsershot().

Extending with macros

Register macros in a service provider:

use Spatie\LaravelScreenshot\ScreenshotBuilder;

ScreenshotBuilder::macro('mobile', function () {
    return $this->size(375, 812)->deviceScaleFactor(3);
});

Then use them:

Screenshot::url('https://example.com')->mobile()->save('mobile.png');

Testing

Fake screenshot generation in tests:

use Spatie\LaravelScreenshot\Facades\Screenshot;

beforeEach(function () {
    Screenshot::fake();
});

Assert a screenshot was saved:

Screenshot::assertSaved('screenshots/homepage.png');

Screenshot::assertSaved(function ($screenshot, string $path) {
    return $path === 'screenshots/homepage.png'
        && $screenshot->url === 'https://example.com';
});

Assert URL or HTML:

Screenshot::assertUrlIs('https://example.com');
Screenshot::assertHtmlContains('Hello World');

Assert queued screenshots:

Screenshot::assertQueued('screenshots/homepage.png');
Screenshot::assertQueued(fn ($screenshot, string $path) => $path === 'screenshots/homepage.png');
Screenshot::assertNotQueued();

Source: spatie/laravel-screenshot — distributed by TomeVault.