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Lightshot

A lightweight RESTful API for taking screenshots of web sites. Screenshots can be stored locally or uploaded to AWS S3.

Usage example:

$ curl 127.0.0.1:5000/generate?url=http://google.com

{
  "path": "shots/1405200668_httpgooglecom.jpg",
  "success": true
}

With uploading to S3 enabled:

$ curl 127.0.0.1:5000/generate?url=http://google.com

{
  "s3_url": "https://lightshot.s3.amazonaws.com/1419887713_httpgooglecom.jpg",
  "success": true
}

Installation

Automated Installation

If you are using Mac, Linux or other Unix system, run install.sh which will complete the steps described bellow.

Manual Installation

Dependencies can be installed using pip:

pip install --pre -r requirements.txt

Also, make sure that shots directory is writeable, and logging directory exists and is writable.

Configuration

The value of an environment variable LIGHTSHOT_SETTINGS should be the path to the configuration file. Running run.sh will do that for you.

An example configuration file is included in config/default.config.