grunt-recap

Creates screenshots or responsive sites at different widths. Uses the recap module.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-recap --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-recap');

The "recap" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named recap to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  recap: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

urls

Type Array Required

An array of urls to capture.

widths

Type Array Required

An array of widths to capture each page at.

dest

Type string Required

The destination to save the screenshots to, relative to the location of the Gruntfile. The directory will be created if it does not already exist. Make sure that you have permissions to write to this location.

options.waitTime

Type: Number Default value: 50

How long to wait after page load before capturing the page - gives the site a chance to execute javascript and generally get ready.

options.crawl

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If true, this option activates crawl mode. Each url visited will be scanned for other links to the same site. Any urls found will be added to the list of pages to capture.

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  recap: {
    urls : ["http://www.datsun.com/"],
    widths : ["320", "480", "1024", "1900"],
    dest : "./screenshots/",
    options : {
      waitTime : 50,
      crawl : true
    }
  }
});