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I also wrote a screenshot server (in JavaScript) for the project which is running at that subdomain. It's using Webkit for the screenshots then node-imagemagick

I also wrote a screenshot server (in JavaScript) for the project which is running at that subdomain. It's using Webkit for the screenshots then node-imagemagick to crop and resize. I hope to open source that part eventually too, but I have a bunch of things to fix still (some bugs in my worker/queue system, and some problems with my setup of the X server), and I need to remember all the steps I took to get it working to document it for others. Unfortunately AFAIK all the current tools for automating webkit/khtml still require an X server so it's not quite as easy to set up as cloning a repo and running the code. http://url2png.com/ http://url2png.com/ would make a good drop-in replacement in the meantime, but it's not free.

dabeeeenster 15y ago
I'd love to help out if you are able to open source it one day. I spoke to the owner of url2png and he's a great guy, but I'd rather roll my own services for that sort of thing! It seems like getting a working setup with headless X is the tricky part...
- phpnode 15y ago
  I've had success with wkhtmltoimage for this, it's part of wkhtmltopdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
- sgrove 15y ago
  Why not use something like Sauce Labs? I built a screenshotting service on top of them using soda (https://github.com/learnboost/soda https://github.com/learnboost/soda) a long time ago, and the code's bit-rotted by now, but it was quick and easy, and combined with firefox's full-page-screenshot, you can get some awesome results. Their entry-level plan is free, so you could easily have a "put your Sauce Labs credentials in this file and we'll take screenshots in the background".
owyn 15y ago
phantom.js can do this, and the bonus is that it's already written in javascript. :) It depends on QT for it's webkit component but that's it... Doing a screenshot with it is pretty much a one liner: page.open(address, function() { page.render(path); }); http://www.phantomjs.org/ http://www.phantomjs.org/

dabeeeenster 15y ago

I'd love to help out if you are able to open source it one day. I spoke to the owner of url2png and he's a great guy, but I'd rather roll my own services for that sort of thing! It seems like getting a working setup with headless X is the tricky part...

phpnode 15y ago
I've had success with wkhtmltoimage for this, it's part of wkhtmltopdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
sgrove 15y ago
Why not use something like Sauce Labs? I built a screenshotting service on top of them using soda (https://github.com/learnboost/soda https://github.com/learnboost/soda) a long time ago, and the code's bit-rotted by now, but it was quick and easy, and combined with firefox's full-page-screenshot, you can get some awesome results. Their entry-level plan is free, so you could easily have a "put your Sauce Labs credentials in this file and we'll take screenshots in the background".

owyn 15y ago

phantom.js can do this, and the bonus is that it's already written in javascript. :) It depends on QT for it's webkit component but that's it... Doing a screenshot with it is pretty much a one liner: page.open(address, function() { page.render(path); }); http://www.phantomjs.org/ http://www.phantomjs.org/