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

70 pointsby whalesalad16 anni fa28 comments

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

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

13 comments

kqueue16 anni fa

I prefer CutyCapt.

http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/

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.

abhiyerra16 anni fa

Seconded.

waleedka16 anni fa

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

ChuckN16 anni fa

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

anathema16 anni fa

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

sailormoon16 anni fa

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 ; )

3ds16 anni fa

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...

xal16 anni fa

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..

tptacek16 anni fa

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

aphyr16 anni fa

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!

deno16 anni fa

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)?

aphyr16 anni fa

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. :)

coderholic16 anni fa

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

ptomato16 anni fa

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

http://derailer.org/paparazzi/

saurabh16 anni fa

Can this be ported to Windows?

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

timmorgan16 anni fa

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...

swirlee16 anni fa

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/

mike-cardwell16 anni fa

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

saurabh16 anni fa

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

3ds16 anni fa

either use aviary.com or:

all you need is imagemagick

wkhtmltopdf www.google.com google.pdf && convert google.pdf google.png

results aren't nearly as good as the browser addon but it works

alien_acorn16 anni fa

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

olaf16 anni fa

"Fireshot" is "Windows-only".

2rs116 anni fa

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

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paraschopra16 anni fa

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.

Alcides16 anni fa

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

simonw16 anni fa

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

ChuckN16 anni fa

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