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  Browsershot
==============

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  [Docs](https://spatie.be/docs)  [Browsershot](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4)  Installation &amp; setup

 Version   v4   v3

 Other versions for crawler [v4](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4) [v3](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v3)

  Installation &amp; setup
- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/introduction)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/support-us)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/requirements)
- [ Installation &amp; setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/installation-setup)
- [ Upgrading ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/upgrading)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/questions-issues)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/about-us)

Usage
-----

- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/usage/introduction)
- [ Creating images ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/usage/creating-images)
- [ Creating PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/usage/creating-pdfs)
- [ Creating HTML ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/usage/creating-html)

Miscellaneous options
---------------------

- [ Adding extra headers to every request ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/adding-extra-headers-to-every-request)
- [ Adding extra headers to the navigational request ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/adding-extra-headers-to-the-navigational-request)
- [ Changing the language of the browser ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/changing-the-language-of-the-browser)
- [ Changing the value of a dropdown ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/changing-the-value-of-a-dropdown)
- [ Clicking on the page ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/clicking-on-the-page)
- [ Connection to a remote chromium/chrome instance ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/connection-to-a-remote-chrome-instance)
- [ Disable sandboxing ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/disable-sandboxing)
- [ Fixing cors issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/fixing-cors-options)
- [ Getting console output ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/getting-console-ouput)
- [ Getting failed requests ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/getting-failed-requests)
- [ Ignore HTTPS errors ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/ignore-https-errors)
- [ Passing environment variables to the browser ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/passing-environment-variables-to-the-browser)
- [ Performance ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/performance)
- [ Prevent unsuccessful responses ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/prevent-unsuccessful-responses)
- [ Sending POST requests ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/sending-post-requests)
- [ Setting an arbitrary option ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/setting-an-arbirary-option)
- [ Setting the CSS media type of the page ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/setting-the-css-media-type-of-the-page)
- [ Setting the timeout ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/setting-the-timeout)
- [ Setting the user agent ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/setting-the-user-agent)
- [ Specifying-a-proxy-server ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/specifying-a-proxy-server)
- [ Typing on the page ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/typing-on-the-page)
- [ Using a pipe instead of a WebSocket ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/using-a-pipe-instead-of-a-websocket)
- [ Using cookies ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/using-cookies)
- [ Using HTTP Authentication ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/using-http-authentication)
- [ Using url for html content ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/using-url-for-html-content)
- [ Writing options to a file ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/writing-options-to-a-file)
- [ Disabling redirects ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/disabling-redirects)
- [ Read redirect history ](https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/miscellaneous-options/read-redirect-history)

 Installation &amp; setup
========================

This package can be installed through Composer.

```
composer require spatie/browsershot
```

This packages requires puppeteer to be installed. You can find installation instructions on [the requirements page](/docs/browsershot/v1/requirements).

### Using Browsershot on AWS Lambda

You can use [sidecar-browsershot](https://github.com/stefanzweifel/sidecar-browsershot) to easily run Browsershot on Lambda.

 A good
match?
-------------

### What we do best

- All things Laravel
- Custom frontend components
- Building APIs
- AI-powered features
- Simplifying things
- Clean solutions
- Integrating services

### Not our cup of tea

- WordPress themes
- Cutting corners
- Free mockups to win a job
- "Just execute the briefing"

 In short: we'd like to be a **substantial part** of your project.

 [ Get in touch via email ](mailto:info@spatie.be?subject=A%20good%20match%21&body=Tell%20us%20as%20much%20as%20you%20can%20about%0A-%20your%20online%20project%0A-%20your%20planning%0A-%20your%20budget%0A-%20%E2%80%A6%0A%0AAnything%20that%20helps%20us%20to%20start%20straightforward%21)
