Screenshotter

A project to experiment with Elixir and OTP. Screenshotter takes a screenshot of a website and then uploads it to your S3 bucket (Just a learning exercise for Elixir)

Set Up

1. Install dependencies with mix deps.get
2. Setup your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_REGION & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables
3. Get PhantomJS running with phantomjs --wd
4. Configure your S3 bucket and path details in the config files

Running via mix

Run iex -S mix and then...

Screenshotter.sync_run("www.google.com") #fetches from a URL synchronously

Screenshotter.async_run("www.google.com") #fetch from a URL asynchronously

Screenshotter.bulk_run(["www.google.com","www.reddit.com"]) #fetch a list of URLs asynchronously

Running synchronously via script

1. Run mix escript.build
2. Run ./screenshotter <url> .

Passing in --h or --help as the only arguments will return instructions

TODO: implement for #bulk_run

Running Test

To run the default test suite, run mix test

To run tagged tests (tests that interact with API's or manipulate files)... Run mix test --only tagged_test (replace tagged_test with the name of the tag)

Tests that communicate with the AWS API will requires your API key/secret to be set. Tests, such as fetch_screenshot will require PhantomJS running