ScreenShooter!

A tool for generating BrowserStack screenshots from the command line.

Installing

gem install screenshooter

Or clone the repository and run

rake install

Configuration

You will need to provide username and authentication token credentials to use the service. You can do so with environment variables or using a file.

To use environment variables (suitable for a CI environment) set BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME and BROWSERSTACK_TOKEN, respectively. If these are missing then ScreenShooter will look for a credentials file.

You should set up your credentials in the .browserstack file in your home directory. It should look like this:

username:auth_token

Your authentication token is available under the automation section of your profile.

Next you'll need a browser configuration file. This will be used to specify which browser versions under which operating systems to take screenshots. You can start with the sample included in this project, sample_browsers.yaml or sample_browsers.json.

Using

For each URL provided, screenshooter will return a BrowserStack screenshot gallery URL.

General use is pretty straightforward:

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml

If you are using a json file, then:

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.json

Once the request is successfully made, the program will return the URL of the screenshot collection. The URL output can be piped to another service.

Commands

screenshooter browsers list
screenshooter browsers search
screenshooter shoot

Arguments and options

screenshooter browsers list
screenshooter browsers search <SEARCH TERM>
screenshooter shoot -u <URL>
screenshooter shoot -u <URL> -u <URL> -u <URL>
screenshooter shoot -u <URL> -b <BROSWER JSON SPEC>

Setting the URL

You don't need to include the URL in your configuration file. It might be helpful if you're always taking screenshots of the same URL, but chances are you'll probably want to specify this each time you run the command.

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com

Waiting for completion

The command accepts an optional boolean flag, wait, which will check every 2.5 seconds on the status of the request and return the URL once the job is complete.

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com -w
screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com --wait

Silence Progress bar

The command accepts an optional boolean flag, 'quiet', which will not print the progress bar, while using the 'wait' option. The screenshot URL will be printed once the job is complete

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com --wait -q
screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com --wait -quiet

Open the screenshots URL

The command accepts an optional boolean flag, open, which will open the screenshots URL in your default browser.

screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com -o
screenshooter shoot path_to/browsers.yaml -u http://www.github.com --open