Ask HN: Possible to take automatic screenshot of webpage at same time each day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405130

by bengalu • 15 years ago

7 8 15 years ago

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Need to get a screen shot of a web page at the same time every day to track some stats for my company. Unfortunately I'm asleep at that point every day. Any way to automate this? Looking for a solution for Mac OS.

JulianMiller520• 15 years ago

would love this!

cl8ton• 15 years ago

Not quite a snapshot but diphur.com checks each hour 24/7 for changes and presents you with what only changed.

sidmitra• 15 years ago

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

https://github.com/coderholic/PyWebShot

dre_lesa• 15 years ago

if you can't find it and you need it. ...MAKE it! ,or pay some one to make it and monetize it. anyway the links given should be good.

instakill• 15 years ago

check out url2png

topherjaynes• 15 years ago

Nice, checked these guys out and looks great. You know they're legit since they give you some alternatives if their pricing plans isn't to your taste.

http://url2png.com/alternatives/

veidr• 15 years ago

It'd be dead easy with PhantomJS. A script to do it would look something like:

---

    p = new WebPage()

    p.open "http://example.com/whatever", (status) ->
        console.log "☆　LOAD STATUS: #{status}"
        p.render "/Users/Shared/screenshot.png"

---

If you want to get fancy, you can code your script to render only a subregion of the page. Phantom can automate pretty much anything you can do yourself with a browser.

http://www.phantomjs.org

restofus• 15 years ago

Selenium is another option http://seleniumhq.org/

Ask HN: Possible to take automatic screenshot of webpage at same time each day?

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