How to create PDF by Chrome headless

[cognitom]

Chrome 59 has supported a new headless mode! 🎉

To try it, add a line below to your .bash_profile:

alias chrome="/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome"

Then, reload .bash_profile:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

and, run Chrome in headless mode:

$ chrome --headless --disable-gpu --virtual-time-budget=1000 --print-to-pdf=github.pdf https://github.com/

• --disable-gpu: this is needed to avoid error
• --print-to-pdf: set file to output
• --virtual-time-budget: set time to wait after document ready (for SPA)

See more details here:

• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
• https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/headless/app/headless_shell_switches.cc

Good luck!

[petrovic-ivan]

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