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Description

Create JPGs using plain old HTML+CSS. Uses wkhtmltoimage on the backend which renders HTML using Webkit.

Heavily based on PDFKit.

Code Quality Rank: L5
Monthly Downloads: 71,863
Programming language: Ruby
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Tags: Image Processing     HTML     Wkhtmltoimage     JPG     PNG     PDFKit     Wkhtmltopdf    

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README

IMGKit

Create JPGs using plain old HTML+CSS. Uses wkhtmltoimage on the backend which renders HTML using Webkit.

Heavily based on PDFKit.

Install

IMGKit

gem install imgkit

wkhtmltoimage

  1. Use the wkhtmltoimage-binary gem (mac + linux) gem install wkhtmltoimage-binary
  2. Install by hand: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
  3. Use installer: sudo imgkit --install-wkhtmltoimage install latest version into /usr/local/bin (overwrite defaults with e.g. ARCHITECTURE=amd64 TO=/home/foo/bin)

Usage

# IMGKit.new takes the HTML and any options for wkhtmltoimage
# run `wkhtmltoimage --extended-help` for a full list of options
kit = IMGKit.new(html, :quality => 50)
kit.stylesheets << '/path/to/css/file'
kit.javascripts << '/path/to/js/file'

# Get the image BLOB
img = kit.to_img

# New in 1.3!
img = kit.to_img(:jpg)      #default
img = kit.to_img(:jpeg)
img = kit.to_img(:png)

# Save the image to a file
file = kit.to_file('/path/to/save/file.jpg')
file = kit.to_file('/path/to/save/file.png')

# IMGKit.new can optionally accept a URL or a File.
# Stylesheets nor Javascripts can not be added when source is provided as a URL of File.
kit = IMGKit.new('http://google.com')
kit = IMGKit.new(File.new('/path/to/html'))

# Add any kind of option through meta tags
IMGKit.new('<html><head><meta name="imgkit-quality" content="75"...

# Format shortcuts - New in 1.3!
IMGKit.new("hello").to_jpg
IMGKit.new("hello").to_jpeg
IMGKit.new("hello").to_png

Note: Ruby's buffered I/O means that if you want to write the string data to a file or tempfile make sure to call `#flush` to ensure the contents don't get stuck in the buffer.

Configuration

wkhtmltoimage binary location

If you're on Windows or you installed wkhtmltoimage by hand to a location other than /usr/local/bin you will need to tell IMGKit where the binary is. You can configure IMGKit like so:

# config/initializers/imgkit.rb
IMGKit.configure do |config|
  config.wkhtmltoimage = '/path/to/wkhtmltoimage'
end

Default image format

May be set to one of IMGKit::KNOWN_FORMATS = [:jpg, :jpeg, :png]

  config.default_format = :png

Prefix for <meta> tag options (see Usage) :

May be changed from its default (imgkit-):

  config.meta_tag_prefix = 'imgkit-option'

Additional default options

Any flag accepted by wkhtmltoimage may be set thus:

  config.default_options = {
    :quality => 60
  }

For a flag which takes no parameters, use true for the value:

    'no-images' => true

For flags with multiple parameters, use an array:

    :cookie => ['my_session', '123BADBEEF456']

Overriding options

When initializing an IMGKit options may be may be set for the life time of the IMGKit object:

IMGKit.new('http://example.com/form', :post => ['my_field', 'my_unique_value'])

Heroku

get a version of wkhtmltoimage as an amd64 binary and commit it to your git repo. I like to put mine in "./bin/wkhtmltoimage-amd64"

version 0.10.0 has worked best for me

assuming its in that location you can just do:

IMGKit.configure do |config|
  config.wkhtmltoimage = Rails.root.join('bin', 'wkhtmltoimage-amd64').to_s if ENV['RACK_ENV'] == 'production'
end

If you're not using Rails just replace Rails.root with the root dir of your app.

Rails

Mime Types

register a .jpg mime type in:

#config/initializers/mime_type.rb
Mime::Type.register       "image/jpeg", :jpg

register a .png mime type in:

#config/initializers/mime_type.rb
Mime::Type.register       "image/png", :png

Controller Actions

You can respond in a controller with:

@kit = IMGKit.new(render_to_string)

format.jpg do
  send_data(@kit.to_jpg, :type => "image/jpeg", :disposition => 'inline')
end

- or -

format.png do
  send_data(@kit.to_png, :type => "image/png", :disposition => 'inline')
end

- or -

respond_to do |format|
  send_data(@kit.to_img(format.to_sym),
            :type => "image/#{format}", :disposition => 'inline')
end

This allows you to take advantage of rails page caching so you only generate the image when you need to.

--user-style-sheet workaround

To overcome the lack of support for --user-style-sheet option by wkhtmltoimage 0.10.0 rc2 as reported here http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=387

  require 'imgkit'
  require 'restclient'
  require 'stringio'

  url = 'http://domain/path/to/stylesheet.css'
  css = StringIO.new( RestClient.get(url) )

  kit = IMGKit.new(<<EOD)
  <!DOCTYPE HTML>
  <html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>coolest converter</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="cool">image kit</div>
  </body>
  </html>
  EOD

  kit.stylesheets << css

Paperclip Example

Model:

class Model < ActiveRecord::Base
  # attr_accessible :title, :body
   has_attached_file :snapshot, :storage => :s3,
        :s3_credentials => "#{Rails.root}/config/s3.yml"
end

Controller:

def upload_image
   model = Model.find(params[:id])
   html  = render_to_string
   kit   = IMGKit.new(html)
   img   = kit.to_img(:png)
   file  = Tempfile.new(["template_#{model.id}", 'png'], 'tmp',
                         :encoding => 'ascii-8bit')
   file.write(img)
   file.flush
   model.snapshot = file
   model.save
   file.unlink
end

CarrierWave Workaround

Contributed by @ticktricktrack

  class MyClass < ActiveRecord::Base
    mount_uploader :snapshot, SnapshotUploader

    after_create :take_snapshot

    # private

    def take_snapshot
      file = Tempfile.new(["template_#{self.id.to_s}", '.jpg'], 'tmp', :encoding => 'ascii-8bit')
      file.write(IMGKit.new(self.html_body, quality: 50, width: 600).to_jpg)
      file.flush
      self.snapshot = file
      self.save
      file.unlink
    end
  end

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.
  • Setup your development environment with: gem install bundler; bundle install
  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Testing

Travis.yml is configured for multiple rubies, so I would just test a 2.1.x version and let travis handle the rest.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Chris Continanza Based on work by Jared Pace See LICENSE for details.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the IMGKit README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.