[Gllug] How to convert a webpage to an image ?

[Richard Russell]

You can run it on the commandline, so this should work in cron, depending on
how often you want to run it. One of my colleagues uses this tool (or
something similar - not sure) in an automated job to keep a record of the
visual evolution of websites.

Cheers

Richard

On 6/6/07, budgester at budgester.com <budgester at budgester.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:47:37PM +0100, Richard Russell wrote:
> > I use Firefox with the Pearl Crescent Page Saver plugin (
> > http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/). It's free beer, and I use
> it
> > on OSX, but it also runs on Linux. Apparently it can also be used from
> the
> > commandline, though i haven't tried it.
> >
> > There's a number of other similar tools available. The weakness is that
> they
> > seem to depend on starting a browser instance, so may not be viable for
> > intensive use.
>
> Should have said, I want to run this automated through cron
>
> Budgester
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