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stakes
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Does anyone know of an extension to php or equivalent to take a "screenshot" of an URL's current display and save it to an image (jpeg etc.)?
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I'm sure I've seen such a service mentioned on these boards, that given a URL, returns a screenshot of the current view.. but my search failed :?
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There are a bunch of services that do that. Most only allow thumbnail generation though.

If you run windows, you can use this:
http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/

to capture IE rendering from a script.
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Post by stakes »

anyone with a *nix version of this? tried a search on google no success
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Post by superdezign »

There are many services that offer the functionality through the web, but you must pay for it. It's usually only worth the price for companies that need a lot of website thumbnails generated. And, just an FYI, most of them use IE's engine to generate the thumbnails.
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