5 ms·

Great idea. I tried this addon now. One limitation I see is that it's only saving single screenshot for each URL, not full page. So on a long (vertically scroll

by jyvbn 12y ago

Great idea. I tried this addon now. One limitation I see is that it's only saving single screenshot for each URL, not full page. So on a long (vertically scrolling) page only a small part is saved.

joshmlewis 12y ago
That's an interesting problem I think will all the screenshotting tools out there. If you want the full page the extension has to scroll down the page and stitch the individual pictures together. You'd think there would be a way to capture the whole page easily but it's quite the tricky problem.
- ctide 12y ago
  I wrote a really basic ruby library to take full page screenshots: https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter/blob/master/lib/screenshotter/main.rb https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter/blob/master/lib/scree... using selenium & webdriver. Not great for a chrome extension, but useful nonetheless. :)
- alooPotato 12y ago
  I'm pretty sure that a chrome extension can take a screenshot of the full page not just whats visible EDIT: here it is: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/desktopCapture#method-chooseDesktopMedia https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/desktopCapture#metho...
  - idibidiart 12y ago
    Interesting. Will experiment with it and will push changes if successful. I guess the API is relatively new (Chrome 34) and I hadn't come across it, till now. Thanks!
    - Already__Taken 12y ago
      That or just record what I've actually scrolled. Why would I archive content I've never seen?
      - idibidiart 12y ago
        Well, it's interesting. My main concern with capturing the entire tab as image is that the site being captured maybe one of those infinitely scrollable pages (i.e. same as the history.html page) in which case, depending on implementation, the tab may be very very long (tens of thousands of pixels in height) and 99% blank (if employing an infinite scroll mechanism that puts only the currently viewed items in the DOM) Edit: so capturing on each scroll step (over say 3 seconds) > $('body').height()/3 and grouping the multiple screenshots under the given item is one possible way. Thanks for your thought.
- rahimnathwani 12y ago
  Yes, I've used wkhtmltopdf for that, but I don't think it works if the page requires authentication, or you want to check what happens if you have particular cookies set.

by jyvbn 12y ago

Great idea. I tried this addon now. One limitation I see is that it's only saving single screenshot for each URL, not full page. So on a long (vertically scrolling) page only a small part is saved.

joshmlewis 12y ago

That's an interesting problem I think will all the screenshotting tools out there. If you want the full page the extension has to scroll down the page and stitch the individual pictures together. You'd think there would be a way to capture the whole page easily but it's quite the tricky problem.

ctide 12y ago
I wrote a really basic ruby library to take full page screenshots: https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter/blob/master/lib/screenshotter/main.rb https://github.com/ctide/screenshotter/blob/master/lib/scree... using selenium & webdriver. Not great for a chrome extension, but useful nonetheless. :)
alooPotato 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that a chrome extension can take a screenshot of the full page not just whats visible EDIT: here it is: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/desktopCapture#method-chooseDesktopMedia https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/desktopCapture#metho...
- idibidiart 12y ago
  Interesting. Will experiment with it and will push changes if successful. I guess the API is relatively new (Chrome 34) and I hadn't come across it, till now. Thanks!
  - Already__Taken 12y ago
    That or just record what I've actually scrolled. Why would I archive content I've never seen?
    - idibidiart 12y ago
      Well, it's interesting. My main concern with capturing the entire tab as image is that the site being captured maybe one of those infinitely scrollable pages (i.e. same as the history.html page) in which case, depending on implementation, the tab may be very very long (tens of thousands of pixels in height) and 99% blank (if employing an infinite scroll mechanism that puts only the currently viewed items in the DOM) Edit: so capturing on each scroll step (over say 3 seconds) > $('body').height()/3 and grouping the multiple screenshots under the given item is one possible way. Thanks for your thought.
rahimnathwani 12y ago
Yes, I've used wkhtmltopdf for that, but I don't think it works if the page requires authentication, or you want to check what happens if you have particular cookies set.