When using webshot2 in Rmd to html, hyperlink the URL?

[maelle]

I'm not too sure whether this is a feature request or something I should know how to do. :-)

I'm using webshot2::webshot() in an Rmd rendering to html (bookdown, but it could be another html format) and would like the image to have an hyperlink to the URL that's been screenshot. How could this work?

[wch]

There's a knit_print.webshot method:

webshot2/R/webshot.R

Lines 283 to 289 in 03a0fbd

	knit_print.webshot <- function(x, ...) {
	lapply(x, function(filename) {
	res <- readBin(filename, "raw", file.size(filename))
	ext <- gsub(".*[.]", "", basename(filename))
	structure(list(image = res, extension = ext), class = "html_screenshot")
	})
	}

It creates an object with class html_screenshot, which is used by knitr or rmarkdown somehow (I don't know how that part works). In knitr, it sets the url of the object. Maybe the same can be done in knit_print.webshot? https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/ab191b07223a609e7c4ba53d664d35ebfc9dcb97/R/plot.R#L514-L517

You may also be able to define your own knit_print.webshot method in your document (though I'm not 100% sure that works anymore due to some recent changes in how R does S3 dispatch).

[maelle]

Thank you, sorry, I still need to explore this. I can update this thread then but I won't be hurt if you close the issue.

[maelle]

Do the args used to create a webshot object stay attached to it somehow? I tried looking but was a bit out of my depth 😅