Advanced Options – Headless Chrome

For the Headless Chrome endpoint, you have the ability to pass in a variety of advanced options as a JSON object as part of the payload. Below are the set of options that we support with headless chrome.

The Chrome version currently running in production: 130

Sample Payload with Advanced Options


    {
        "html": "Hello World",
        "options": {
            "landscape": true
        }
    }
Attribute Type Description
landscape Boolean Paper orientation. Defaults to false.
displayHeaderFooter Boolean Display header and footer. Defaults to false.
printBackground Boolean Print background graphics. Defaults to false.
scale Number Scale of the webpage rendering. Defaults to 1.
width String Paper width in inches. Defaults to "8.27in".
height String Paper height in inches. Defaults to "11.69in".
marginBottom String Bottom margin in inches. Defaults to ".4in".
marginLeft String Left margin in inches. Defaults to ".4in".
marginRight String Right margin in inches. Defaults to ".4in".
marginTop String Top margin in inches. Defaults to ".4in".
pageRanges String Paper ranges to print, e.g., ‘1-5, 8, 11-13’. Defaults to the empty string, which means print all pages.
headerTemplate String HTML template for the print header. Should be valid HTML markup with following classes used to inject printing values into them: –
  • date: formatted print date
  • title: document title
  • url: document location
  • pageNumber: current page number
  • totalPages: total pages in the document

For example, <span class=”title”></span> would generate span containing the title.
footerTemplate String HTML template for the print footer. Should use the same format as the `headerTemplate`.
preferCSSPageSize Boolean Whether or not to prefer page size as defined by css. Defaults to false, in which case the content will be scaled to fit the paper size.
delay Integer The amount of time to wait for the page to render before taking screenshot or PDF (in milliseconds). Defaults to 0.
puppeteerWaitForMethod String Acceptable values are WaitForNavigation, WaitForExpression, WaitForFunction, WaitForSelector. See more details here.
puppeteerWaitForValue String WaitForNavigation, the only acceptable values are domcontentloaded, load, networkidle0, networkidle2.
omitBackground String Transparent background on PDF