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Website snapshot

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:51 am
by manglik
Hi friends,
Now i am developing a web application in which i want to display a list of websites having their homepage thumbnail snapshot infront of their url . The list of website is dynamic. So i need the php code that can be used to genrate a websites home page thumbnail snapshot by providing the website url.
If any body knows how to do this please reply soon its urgent.

Thank you for your time in advanced.

Re: Website snapshot

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:02 am
by onion2k
It's not possible with PHP on it's own. There are a few Linux apps that can do it, and at least one for Windows, but those would require the ability to install applications on your server and some pretty in-depth knowledge of either Linux scripting or COM on windows. There's also a couple of web services that can do it, such as http://www.thumbalizr.com/ (free I think) or http://www.webshotspro.com/ ($5 a month).