thumbshots

thumbshots help

[crs992]

is there a php or cgi script that would allow you to give it a url...the script would then get a thumbshot of the url and display a small image of it?
if anyone know how to do this
please help

[eelixduppy]

I'm not sure if PHP has these capabilities. Does this have to be entirely dynamic? Can you just create the previews manually? Also, is this approach entirely necessary for what you want? Maybe there is an alternate route.

[crs992]

I would like it to be automatic, but if there are any other ways to do this, i would like to know too
You said that you dont think php can do this, do you think cgi or perl can?

[eeek]

So what you want to do is render the html into an image?

[crs992]

yeah...
a script when you type [mysite.com...]
and an image would be created and shown of the page
so yes...thats what i would like

[adni18]

Not sure that can be done, unless you're planning on writing an HTML parser in PHP which could take years.

You can probably do it with a shell script or something (open a browser window, get a screencap, save, resize and serve)

[edited by: coopster at 1:34 am (utc) on June 28, 2006]
[edit reason] removed url [/edit]

[jatar_k]

there are a bunch of scripts around that take screenshots of sites, though I don't remember any

please don't take this as an invitation to start dropping urls ;)

[coopster]

There is a thread here on WebmasterWorld that answers How can i create screenshot of url? [webmasterworld.com] Perhaps that will help.