How to get website thumbshots?

Like alexa and thumbshots.org

[tntpower]

Alexa and thumbshots.org both provide thumbshots for website listed in DMOZ for free. But I run a link directory that many sites are not listed in DMOZ.

thumbshots.com does provide paid service to generate thumbshots for websites which are not in DMOZ. But the price is a bit high and its TOS prohabits customers to cache or store thumbshots provided by them.

Hence, I am pretty interested in how to get website thumbshots. I am not a tech guru but it seems a big challenge, since it involves HTML->Image, does this require a custom web browser? A robot visits websites regularly and generates thumbshots by reading the source HTML it reads.

Another possibility is virtual printing but I think it is slow and resource-intensive.

Any idea?

[mipapage]

Does this search not provide anything?
[google.com...]

I use a program called snagit, but for manual shots, I'm not sure if it can do things automatically...

[benlieb]

Not sure if I know what you want, but I use (on windows)...

fn + prt sc

(function key + print screen key)

...to copy an image of the current window to the clipboard. Then you can paste it into photoshop or other img editor.

Hope that helps. Maybe you want something else?