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Never run Puppeteer inside a web request: scheduled captures with WP-Cron + a background worker

Dev.to · PetrDev 1w ago

Never run Puppeteer inside a web request: scheduled captures with WP-Cron + a background worker

We let people put a URL on a schedule: re-capture this page daily, weekly, or monthly, and email me...

Making a screenshot PDF searchable — no OCR, because we rendered the page

Dev.to · PetrDev 3w ago

Making a screenshot PDF searchable — no OCR, because we rendered the page

How we gave image-based web-page PDFs a real, invisible, searchable text layer with pdf-lib + fontkit — and the hidden-text trap that made it hard.

Converting a JavaScript-Rendered Web Page to PDF

Dev.to · PetrDev 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Converting a JavaScript-Rendered Web Page to PDF

If you've ever tried to turn a modern web page into a PDF programmatically, you've probably hit the...

I shipped a website-to-PDF SaaS on WordPress — here's the stack

Dev.to · PetrDev ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I shipped a website-to-PDF SaaS on WordPress — here's the stack

Last month I launched Site2PDF — converts any website to PDF, PNG, JPG or ZIP. Here's the entire tech...

Cleaning up web pages for screenshots — a practical Puppeteer guide

Dev.to · PetrDev 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Cleaning up web pages for screenshots — a practical Puppeteer guide

If you've ever taken a screenshot of a real-world webpage with Puppeteer, you've seen the ugly truth:...