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[nycphp-talk] Website Screenshots from PHP

csnyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 12:11:41 EST 2006


On 11/11/06, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> you can change the url in the querystring and it will take a live screenshot
> of the page.
>
> Any direction on what i should research would be great.  obviously i would
> have to use image manipulation, but i am not sure how the screen would be
> captured.

I found the path of least resistance to be Paul Hammond's webkit2png,
but it's a Macintosh solution. It uses WebKit to render the page and
then takes a screenshot.
http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

There are links on that page to two Linux-friendly solutions.

-- 
Chris Snyder
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