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Ask YC: Is there a utility that takes thumbnail style 'screenshots' of webpages?
I have noticed more and more different websites displaying little thumbnail screenshot images of entire webpages, for instance (picking something a total random:
http://dzone.com/links/gumbo_inline_twoway_data_binding.html
Notice the snapshot image of the website it links to in the center of the page. How do you do that? Its appearing in so many places, I am guessing there must be a library for it somewhere, but I have no idea what!
- tuukkah 18y agoSome discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196148 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196148
- adrianwaj 18y agowww.mr-thumb.de there are heaps of others but this site doesn't place a logo on the image.
- fendale 18y agoI would prefer something I can install on my own server as opposed to a service. That site is all in German, but it looks like its webservice that captures the images for you - am I correct?
- adrianwaj 18y agoIt's never failed me. Check out the source for how I use it: http://bit.ly/4g6ihb http://bit.ly/4g6ihb
- fendale 18y agoSounds like webkit2png is the best bet, but its OS X only which is no good if you want to run it on a webserver. The alternative is khtml2png, which will run on a linux webserver, but it looks like its going require a lot of messing about with virtual X-Servers to get it going http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=faq http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=faq Now the question is whether I can get my creaky old Fedora 4 box to get this all working without rebuilding the whole thing! Edit: looks like a good tutorial at http://corpocrat.com/2008/08/26/capturing-a-screenshot-of-a-website/ http://corpocrat.com/2008/08/26/capturing-a-screenshot-of-a-...