We need to capture webpages in picture format on the server side. Like a screenshot.

Any help?

6/13/2011 3:46:50 PM

"Ctrl" + "-"

6/13/2011 4:09:20 PM

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/968201/convert-web-page-to-image

6/13/2011 4:10:48 PM

^I've seen several of those, they all require windows ( ) or at least a window manager (KDE, etc)

Also found PagePix and Websnapr - both are services with an API. We decided to test PagePix and it's taking like 5 minutes for a file to show up, which is not going to fit in with the "instant feedback" the boss is hunting for...

[Edited on June 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM. Reason : Forgot to say THANKS!]

6/13/2011 4:21:48 PM

do you want to do this on demand or run as a batch job on all pages in one run?

6/13/2011 5:32:52 PM

... the customers can log in and "verify their listing" - in there it would need to be on-demand based on the website they type in. Then we'll cache that image for later viewing on the static page. Cache would be refreshed once/week or so - so both really.

I think we're 80% settled on cuty (also featured in that stack overflow link) and imagemagick to trim it down to size.

6/13/2011 6:06:03 PM

Google news does this, but I'm not sure how...

6/14/2011 8:10:35 PM

There is probably just a setting in the chrome renderer that allows it to render to things other than an on-screen window, like a jpg.

6/15/2011 2:49:29 PM