# spatie/browsershot

Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string

Repository: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/browsershot
Homepage: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: php, phantomjs, screenshot, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-07-09T10:44:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4506, "days_push": 55, "days_rel": 99, "gap_med": 14.5, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5241, forks 508 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:13.571239+00:00)

## What it is
A PHP library that converts web pages or raw HTML into images, PDFs, or rendered HTML strings using Puppeteer and headless Chrome. It supports screenshots, PDF generation, JavaScript-executed body HTML, and inspecting triggered network requests.

## Use cases
- convert html to pdf in php
- take a screenshot of a webpage
- render html to an image
- get page html after javascript executes
- generate pdf from url
- capture og images from html

## When to choose
- you need pixel-accurate PDF or image rendering of HTML from PHP
- the target page relies on JavaScript rendering
- you want a simple fluent API over headless Chrome

## When to avoid
- you cannot install Node.js and Puppeteer on the server
- you need a pure-PHP solution without external browser dependencies
- you only need simple HTML-to-text conversion

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, pdf, web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, pdf, developer-tools
- platform: php, windows, serverless
- tags: puppeteer, headless-chrome, screenshot, html-to-pdf, html-to-image, laravel, automation, nodejs, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- spatie/browsershot (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.571239+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:59:37.152849+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.571239+00:00, sha 963ff784d1a4)
  - homepage: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.641883+00:00, sha 39553397dc41)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.646598+00:00, sha 08e024d86d95)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.649074+00:00, sha d3cb88e4b34c)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.651467+00:00, sha a5013bba2a50)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v3 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.653812+00:00, sha 632cf90df3f9)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/support-us (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.655933+00:00, sha d0fa28ee85c3)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/requirements (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.658156+00:00, sha c8b914cbe881)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/installation-setup (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.660320+00:00, sha ffeb674793c6)
  - site_page: https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v4/upgrading (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:02.662220+00:00, sha 7b3df2d89521)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.