XmltoX

XmltoX allows any link to be rendered to a PNG or PDF. It's a service that can be used for taking screenshots. The library uses the pool of goroutines to help with scaling. This is acheived through bulldozer.

• The library uses firefox -marionete backend to get the work done
• The marionette client - Handle the sessions and has the wrappers for screenshot and Navigate which will be sent out to the clinet.

Example

If xvfb is installed which is a linux virtual frame buffer, multiple instances of the renderer can run in the background to do the conversion.

$ sh startup/firefoxrun.sh

An instance of firefox should work if marionette is enabled by default in the version of firefox used.

For converting a set of hits to goole to pdf try the test case. This uses the thread pool to get the task done.

$ go test -v

Read through the code to get a better idea.

Finalise

$ killall -9 firefox

This will ensure that cpu is not hogged by the firefox zoombie processes.

$ xvfb-run firefox -marionette

How it works ?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette#How_does_it_work

Worker queue using bulldozer.

If there are multiple requests and all of them need to be served, the library makes use of the backend

Issues

• Please file issues if any to the library.

Authors

• George