screen shots of websites

[1DMF]

hi,

I've hunted for hours on G! and cannot find a working script for capturing websies into an image, so I can do website thumbnail previews.

Does anyone know if it is possible with perl.

if not PHP or ASP will do!

thanks,

1DMF

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!

 

[chrismassey]

Hey,

possibly this:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020904071836953

Chris

 

[1DMF]

This does screen captures of current machine it is running on, I need to pass a script a URL and grap an image of the page rendered.

there are plenty of web services offering this (for a price) such as alexia, so it is obviously possible.

I just cant find anywhere where there is a script available to acheive this.

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!

 

[KevinADC]

Have you searched CPAN for "scrapers"?

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[1DMF]

yup - nothing.

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!

 

[1DMF]

In the end I got hold of an ActiveX plugin for the server.

works a treat, I guess I could interact with it in PERL but the demo came with an ASP example so stuck with that!

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!