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screenshot crawler

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:19 am
by howardr
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:48 am
by MrPotatoes
screen shots of the page or grab all the images off that page?

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:52 am
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:57 am
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:15 am
by Ambush Commander
Actually doing it yourself is a little complicated though, you'll need specialized software.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:28 am
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.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:28 pm
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...)