# FTP static dashboard to web server

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You can use for example Puppeteer in a Node.js script for this. The below script has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 4.

**Prerequisites**

- Chromium is installed (not required if running on i686 CPU and not on a Raspberry Pi)
- Puppeteer is installed: `npm install -g puppeteer`

```auto
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async () => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    executablePath: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'
  });
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('http://localhost:1880/ui');
  await page.waitFor(5000);
  await page.screenshot({path: 'dashboard.png'});
  await browser.close();
})();

```

If you're running an i686 environment, you don't need to separately install Chromium and can remove the `executablePath` part and just call `await puppeteer.launch()`. This should create a `dashboard.png` screenshot in the folder you run the script in. You could call this script from Node-RED using the exec node and use a file watch node to trigger upload when the screenshot is updated.

You can adjust the `waitFor` time in milliseconds to be as long as needed for the dashboard to fully load.

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