Hello everyone,
I am currently creating a website with links to other websites.
I was wondering if it possible to print a thumbnale picture of a whole website dynamicaly.
So the user has a preview of the site.
Instead of going to the website and press print screen, past it photoshop,resize it , save it, upload it,....
anyone knows this is possible?
Thanks in Advance
Gert
Dynamicaly make thumbnale of URL ?
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It may be possible somehow.
This website does it
http://www.canadiancontent.net/dir/Top/ ... n/Firms/O/
I have no idea how tho!?
This website does it
http://www.canadiancontent.net/dir/Top/ ... n/Firms/O/
I have no idea how tho!?
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There are some commercial services that will dot his for you. You call them up via their API and tell them what website you want a thumbnail for and they will generate it for you. You can then either download it locally to your site or display it being hosted on theirs.
Actually they have a free service but it has a limited number of sites with thumbnails:
http://www.thumbshots.org/
Their commercial service is at http://www.thumbshots.com/
I have also seen a solution before that was a Linux program that you could call with PHP to get a thumbnail or a website. Of coarse it required you be on Linux and required that such and such a web browser was installed and that X-windows was installed and running on the server.
Actually they have a free service but it has a limited number of sites with thumbnails:
http://www.thumbshots.org/
Their commercial service is at http://www.thumbshots.com/
I have also seen a solution before that was a Linux program that you could call with PHP to get a thumbnail or a website. Of coarse it required you be on Linux and required that such and such a web browser was installed and that X-windows was installed and running on the server.