[Gllug] Browser tricks

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:34:30PM +0200, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:21, Simon Stewart wrote:
> > One of my users has just asked me if it's possible to automatically go
> > to a website and grab the rendered output as a PNG, GIF or JPEG. This
> > means that they just want to fire off a cron job (say) to collect the
> > rendered output of a web page without having to go to the site and
> > grab the window itself by hand.
> > 
> > Before I hurl myself bodily into scripting Mozilla, does anyone know
> > of a tool that can already do this? 
> > 
> 
> Perl is your friend here.

I have a horrible feeling I know where you're going with this one.

> As I recall, there are lots of CPAN modules for this.

Will have a poke about.
 
> And look in Chapter 20 of the Perl Cookbook.
> 
> (will email with something more useful when I've had a quick skim)

I don't want to download the HTML. I want to visit a webpage at
certain times using a cronjob, render the page in Gecko and then save
the resulting image. It's the image of the whole page, and not just
one image within the page.

Cheers,

Simon

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