Webkit2png: Python (cmd) tool that creates png screenshots of webpages

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

by whalesalad • 16 years ago

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saurabh2• 16 years ago

Can this be ported to Windows?

EDIT: took a look at the source, it uses OS X specific API's.

timmorgan• 16 years ago

Probably won't help you much, but this one, based on QtWebKit, runs on Linux: http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2008/12/03/creat...

alien_acorn• 16 years ago

For Firefox on Windows, try Fireshot, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648 .

olaf• 16 years ago

"Fireshot" is "Windows-only".

swirlee• 16 years ago

wkhtmltopdf renders web pages to PDF using WebKit and works great on Windows, for what it's worth. It's just one more step to go from PDF to PNG. The results were great when I used it, but I'm not sure how it deals with e.g. Flash.

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

saurabh2• 16 years ago

thanks, i checked it out, i wish it could output png though.

mike-cardwell• 16 years ago

wkhtmltopdf is excellent software. I use it to generate previews of text/html parts in emails at http://spamalyser.com/

2rs1• 16 years ago

Webshot is an alternative. http://www.websitescreenshots.com/

waleedka2• 16 years ago

Can someone recommend a similar tool that runs on Linux and can render flash?

ChuckN2• 16 years ago

python-webkit2png mentioned above does and it runs on xvfb which is extremely handy.

paraschopra• 16 years ago

I have used it on server and it works flawlessly. But you will need Xvfb on server and X11-fonts installed to make it work.

anathema• 16 years ago

If anyone's interested, I ported this into a Ruby Gem a couple of years back. I haven't given it too much love lately, but it should still be good/useful: http://github.com/jurisgalang/snapurl

sailormoon• 16 years ago

This is probably the wrong forum but there is a mistake in the regex in the makeFilename method. In trying to detect https it will strip the first letter of any domain starting with s. Check it out:

  >> name = 'http://super.com/'
  => "http://super.com/"
  >> name.gsub!(/\W/, '')
  => "httpsupercom"
  >> name.gsub!(/^http(s)?/i, '')
  => "upercom"

Cool, though ; )

kqueue• 16 years ago

I prefer CutyCapt.

http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/

abhiyerra• 16 years ago

Seconded.

waleedka2• 16 years ago

Their site says: "Qt double-escapes % characters in addresses, meaning those cannot be loaded".

That sounds like a major issue, isn't? Using % in a URL is very common.

Alcides• 16 years ago

Such a tool has existed long time ago: http://softwarelivre.sapo.pt/projects/mac/wiki/WebPageRender...

simonw• 16 years ago

webkit2png is at least five and a half years old: http://simonwillison.net/2004/Sep/11/webkitpng/

3ds2• 16 years ago

Then there is the aviary.com browser plugin where you can get an image version of the website you are viewing and even upload it directly to host (and edit) it on their site:

http://aviary.com/viewfull?fguid=a1c828de-96b6-102d-a9f3-003...

usually they also provide a service where you can go to URLs like this to get an image (the plugin is faster though):

http://aviary.com/http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125638...

ptomato• 16 years ago

There's also a gui OS X tool that does the same thing.

http://derailer.org/paparazzi/

xal• 16 years ago

I build a web service for this in my spare time: http://www.web2png.com . You can set up profiles where you select the resulting resolution of the screenshot and apply all sorts of effects like polaroid frame, drop shadows and stuff like this. Once created you get a special URL through which you can get screenshots of web sites using your specifications.

Do you think this may be worth $19 a month? I provide a jquery plugin which makes this all really easy..

tptacek• 16 years ago

Who would it be worth a monthly fee to? Answer that question first.

coderholic• 16 years ago

I released PyWebShot today, which does a similar thing for Linux, but generates thumbnails (or arbitrary size) rather than whole page images. Details at http://www.coderholic.com/pywebshot-generate-website-thumbna... and code on GitHub

aphyr2• 16 years ago

We use a modified webkit2png, along with some ruby and erlang RPC stuff, to take thumbnails of flash videos at vodpod.com. It works great!

deno• 16 years ago

Wouldn’t something like getting the actual video file (flv or h.264) be a simpler approach? I mean don’t you have to have some kind of sandboxing etc. since you are executing unknown code (swf)?

aphyr2• 16 years ago

Oh, believe me, I'd love to. The difficulty, however, is that extracting H264 or FLV streams from embed codes is a process that every video host is actively attempting to thwart--and there's some 15,000 of them, and one of me. :)

ChuckN2• 16 years ago

Python-Webkit2png is the best solution - believe me I've been through them all, it's based off of Roland's script mentioned below and is on PyPI:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/webkit2png

http://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png

-Adam

Webkit2png: Python (cmd) tool that creates png screenshots of webpages

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