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Screenshot thumbnails

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:40 pm
by hawleyjr
The question of can you take a screenshot of a web site with PHP has been asked here a bunch before. I just found this via digg...

http://www.websnapr.com/

http://images.websnapr.com/?url=devnetwork.net

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:53 pm
by Todd_Z
thats real sweet, but why is it so damn small :-\

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:27 pm
by Luke
how do you know it's php?

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:57 pm
by timvw
If you have windows hosting: http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/ is easily from any language that can invoke command line programs...

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:28 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
http://bluga.net/webthumb/

Even comes with a webservice for remote calls...

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:00 am
by MrPotatoes
didn't someone want something like this not too long ago?

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:00 am
by Luke
umm... I don't see PHP anywhere on the page... does anybody else?

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:19 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
PHP for which one...;)

Webthumb has .php on the end of the files I can visit. It's developed by Joshua Eichorn. His blog categorises it as PHP. Etc. It's not open source though, so I couldn't say for certain what's running it...

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:39 am
by RobertGonzalez
Did anyone have any problems with this yesterday? I tried several sites and all I got was the 'In queue' notice. Never did show a thumbnail.

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:56 pm
by hawleyjr
Everah wrote:Did anyone have any problems with this yesterday? I tried several sites and all I got was the 'In queue' notice. Never did show a thumbnail.
I got the site off http://digg.com which if you've visited it before you know that many domains get a "Digg Effect" aka too much traffic at one time...

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:24 pm
by Luke
Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:PHP for which one...;)

Webthumb has .php on the end of the files I can visit. It's developed by Joshua Eichorn. His blog categorises it as PHP. Etc. It's not open source though, so I couldn't say for certain what's running it...
the original... I was asking hawkley jr. how he know it was php

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:37 pm
by phice
The site http://bluga.net/webthumb/ that one of you guys listed previously is nearly instant (around 5-7 seconds). What types of methods do you guys think could bring about this screenshot automatically?

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:39 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, phice. Where you been at dude?

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:40 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Got this from your link phice:

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array(2) { 
    ["error"] => bool(true) 
    ["message"] => string(22) "Missing or Invalid URL" 
}

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:44 pm
by phice
Hey Everah, just been busy. :)

Link works fine for me