[Gllug] Browser tricks

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:51:19AM -0400, SteveC wrote:
> * Simon Stewart (sms at lateral.net) 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? 
> 
> GIMP can IIRC?
> 
> I remember some plugin that did this but I may be horribly wrong...

GIMP can do screen/window grabs for sure, but there is one, final
snag: this is probably going to be used on a Mac rather than a Linux
box. Argh! If I could do it with a cron job on one of the servers
here I'd be a happy man, though.

Still poking about the Mozilla site. Not so sure that the webclient
project does qiute what I need.

Applescript may be used in anger soon. :)

Cheers,

Simon

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