`setWSEndpoint` does not work with `Browsershot::html` (only `::url`) #517

alfredbez · 2021-04-16T20:02:15Z

alfredbez
Apr 16, 2021

This does not work:

Browsershot::html('<h1>It works!</h1>')->setWSEndpoint('wss://chrome.browserless.io');

But this does:

Browsershot::url('https://www.google.com')->setWSEndpoint('wss://chrome.browserless.io');

If I try to run the script myself it outputs the following error:

/home/abez/projects/privat/mysideproject/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/assert.js:26
        throw new Error(message);
              ^

Error: Protocol error: Connection closed. Most likely the page has been closed.
    at Object.assert (/home/abez/projects/privat/mysideproject/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/assert.js:26:15)
    at Page.close (/home/abez/projects/privat/mysideproject/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/Page.js:1193:21)
    at callChrome (/home/abez/projects/privat/mysideproject/vendor/spatie/browsershot/bin/browser.js:267:28)

freekmurze · 2021-04-17T13:46:04Z

freekmurze
Apr 17, 2021
Maintainer

Feel free to PR a fix for this.

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jmslbam · 2021-06-16T18:06:51Z

jmslbam
Jun 16, 2021

@alfredbez Browserless doesn't accept HTML via Post last time I checked, but please do double-check it with this SaaS. And if so, maybe checkout #496 if it does.

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jmslbam · 2021-06-24T22:22:19Z

jmslbam
Jun 24, 2021

@alfredbez I researched this topic some more, and I just solved it by sending an curl request and am not using Browsershot with this specific project. Browserless does support sending HTML but I solved it via their API call.

$api = 'https://chrome.browserless.io/pdf?token=' . BROWSERLESS_KEY;

$args = [
	'method'      	=> 'POST',
	'timeout' => 60,
	'headers'		=> [
		'Content-Type'  => 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
		'Cache-Control' => 'no-cache',
		'Expect' => '',
	],
	'body'      	=> json_encode( [
		// 'url' => $url,
		'html' => '<html><head><head><body><h1>test</h1></body></html>',
		'options' => [
			'format' => 'A4',
			'printBackground' => true,
		],
		"viewport" => [
			'deviceScaleFactor' => 2,
			'width' => '1920',
			'height' => '1080',
		]
	] ),

];
$response = wp_remote_post( $api, $args );

wp_remote_post is a WordPress function, replace it with your own function.

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tuandang-diag · 2023-09-08T04:35:33Z

tuandang-diag
Sep 8, 2023

->setContentUrl('https://www.example.com') can fix it

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