Running ccapture.js headless?

[spite]

Running ccapture.js headless?

[transitive-bullshit]

Also @spite, I've generally loved using this project -- thank you so much for your excellent work!!

[spite]

I haven't tried anything of the sort. Technically ccapture takes a canvas, so as long as you can produce one -or equivalent-, you should be good. For 2d canvas ,there's a few node modules, and for 3d, i've heard good things about headless-gl. If you can check those out for your case and report the results, I'm open to modify whatever is needed to get it working!

[cblavier]

Did anyone managed to run it headless?
I tried to run it with phantom.js but I have issues when capturing frames :

• my socket to ffmpegserver.js is disconnected at the very beginning
• if I use png + tar, Tar.append fails with an empty input

[spite]

If you can set up a repo with an example using phantom.js, i will take a look. Thanks!

[cblavier]

Thanks, preparing it right now!

[cblavier]

Here it is: https://github.com/cblavier/ccapture_headless

[transitive-bullshit]

For anyone trying to use headless chrome with this project, note that currently headless chrome doesn't support file downloads (issue).

[spite]

@fisch0920 I guess that's for the new chrome headless, not for phantom.js? does the rest work on chrome headless?

[transitive-bullshit]

@spite yes, this is related to the newer chrome headless, not phantom.js. Note that the rest works fine on chrome headless as far as I can tell, you just need to do some extra work to transfer the captured results to your server for processing as opposed to downloading it directly. I'm using websockets to accomplish this.