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Screenshots

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:47 am
by stakes
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.)?

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:15 am
by n00b Saibot
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 :?

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:47 am
by mrkite
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:41 am
by stakes
anyone with a *nix version of this? tried a search on google no success

Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:17 am
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.