webshot2

webshot2 is meant to be a replacement for webshot, except that instead of using PhantomJS, it uses headless Chrome via the Chromote package.

Installation

# CRAN
install.packages("webshot2")

# Development
remotes::install_github("rstudio/webshot2")

You also need to have the Chrome browser installed on your system. You can also use other browsers based on Chromium, such as Chromium itself, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, or Opera.

Usage

library(webshot2)

# Single page
webshot("https://www.r-project.org")

A screenshot of the R Project website.

# Multiple pages (in parallel!)
webshot(c("https://www.r-project.org", "https://shiny.posit.co"))

The same screenshot of the R Project website. A screenshot of the Shiny website.

# Specific height and width
webshot("https://www.r-project.org", vwidth = 1600, vheight = 900, cliprect = "viewport")

A screenshot of the R project website, clipped to the first 900 pixels in height.