If you can provide a script that takes in an HTML file and provides an image ready for rendering, that would be amazing. Then I can automatically take any website and have a cron job that dumps the result into a shared dropbox link where it can be used by the screen.
> If you can provide a script that takes in an HTML file and provides an image ready for rendering, that would be amazing.
Yea, that's something I have been trying to build, but it's surprisingly non-trivial. There are a bunch of headless browser options, but I haven't found a good way to tell them: "Render the page in X width and Y height and then take a screenshot".
That seems like a problem that should have 100 open source solutions for it, and I am sure there are some that work really well! But I personally haven't found one yet.
At least that is what I use to do for screen testing for some of our low-hanging-fruit QA.
At some point I rewrote it in puppeteer and it was as simple as the above line.
The screenshot results in being the X/Y size.
I'd be interested in why this doesn't work in your usecase.
I made something almost exactly like this before. I needed to convert svgs to pngs and have them display the same way they looked in the browser. It turned out that spinning up chromium and taking a screenshot was the easiest thing way to do that. I think I used puppeteer.
It feels fairly reasonable imo to specify something like "this uses phantomjs with the following screen size" and just say peoples work has to fit that.
