Package: node-html2canvas (0.5.0~beta4+ds1-2)

Take screenshots of webpages directly in the browser - NodeJS module

html2canvas allows you to take "screenshots" of webpages or parts of it, directly on the users browser. The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such may not be 100% accurate to the real representation as it does not make an actual screenshot, but builds the screenshot based on the information available on the page.

It renders the current page as a canvas image, by reading the DOM and the different styles applied to the elements.

It does not require any rendering from the server, as the whole image is created on the clients browser. However, as it is heavily dependent on the browser, this library is not suitable to be used in nodejs. It doesn't magically circumvent any browser content policy restrictions either, so rendering cross-origin content will require a proxy to get the content to the same origin.

It is still in a very experimental state, so the author doesn't recommend using it in a production environment nor start building applications with it yet, as there will be still major changes made.

This package contains the NodeJS package. Note that html2canvas is NOT suited to be used from NodeJS. However some people these days use NPM for non-NodeJS purposes. This package is for those special people.