Daily (On Kawara) painting generator

Purpose

Create app to generate a daily painting in html (see codepen)

• 10 . clip some copy from NYT to accompany the html painting
• 20 . publish a screenshot on your favorite img stream

Getting Started

node src/index.js -h
node src/index.js -V

Prerequisites

Things you need to install and how to install them

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.sh | bash # install nvm (node version manager)
nvm install 25 # install node v25

Automated screenshots with puppeteer

npm i -g puppeteer
npm install

modify click to specific page

use chancejs on puppeteer projects install chance-cli

Deprecated

use npm pageres to create full page screenshots 6 ♦

npm install pageres-cli
pageres www.charlesverraest.be 1024x768 1366x768 #2 screenshots
pageres www.standaard.be/ 1024x768 1366x768

Lab pageres > using pageres api

update pageres:

npm update -g pageres

Using a list of screen resolutions

pageres <url> < screen-resolutions.txt

SAMPLE:

pageres 891.be 1024x768 1366x768

Generate a daily painting

Get a screenshot (be patient)

node --unhandled-rejections=strict src/index.js

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

Tankred

License

GPLv3 license

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to On Kawara
• March 22, 2020
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