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howardr
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screenshot crawler

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is there a program that will crawl a website and take screenshots of everypage. I would prefer something that installs locally (winxp), but if there is an online service then it might be worth looking into.
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MrPotatoes
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screen shots of the page or grab all the images off that page?
howardr
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Post by howardr »

a program that would take a screenshot of pages linked to each other on one webpage. I would like this for QA purposes.
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wtf
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Post by wtf »

You should check this out.

http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/ ... us-screen/

Here's the link to the app

http://bluga.net/webthumb/


You could easily write a script to send url and receive back the image. I believe he also has instructions on how he set it up.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

Actually doing it yourself is a little complicated though, you'll need specialized software.
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wtf
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Post by wtf »

Another way you could go about this is via web service. Recently, I've been snooping through phpclasses.org and came across class called HTML_TO_PDF.
It uses some web service to capture screenshot of given url and saves it as pdf.
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Post by timvw »

http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/ can be used easily... (I once wanted to write a php extension to avoid the system call but that seemed rather like a pita.. So i decided to live with the call...)
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