Re: Capture homepage screenshot
| From: | Daniel Brown | Date: | Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:45:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Capture homepage screenshot | ||
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Shiplu <shiplu.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> How can i capture homepage screenshot of a webpage by php?
>
> I know a way.
> I'll run a executable written in C/C++. when It will be called to process a
> screen shot It will just load the webpage in firefox and capture the image.
> It'll send the image path to php. The executable will be running.
> The problem with this solution is, I have to run X, Firefox in my web
> server, which doesn't look efficient for a server.
>
> I wanna know, is there any other way to achieve this? without creating a
> screen shot server.
There are several commercial options available, but I may put
together a script this afternoon capable of generating thumbnails from
websites. If I do, I'll keep you informed.
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</Daniel P. Brown>
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