chrisprice/selector-to-gif repository overview

⁠selector-to-gif

HTTP service to convert URL + selector to animated GIF

WARNING - This service is not intended to be exposed directly to the internet.

Amongst the many reasons this would be a bad idea -

• there's no upper limits on the API parameters
• there's no throttling of requests

⁠API

The following parameters are all required -

• url - The URL containing the element to capture e.g. https://t.d3fc.io/status/700046974305857536
• selector - The CSS selector of the element on the page e.g. iframe
• delay - The delay before the first frame capture e.g. 1000
• interval - The interval between frame capture e.g. 16
• count - The number of frames to capture e.g. 10
• width - The width of the viewport to use when capturing e.g. 1024
• height - The height of the viewport to use when capturing e.g. 768
• repeat - The loop count to use for the resulting GIF e.g. 0 (infinite)

⁠Environment variables

The following environment variables can be configured -

• TIMEOUT - Enforce a maximum time limit on the capture process. By default there is no timeout.