[CentOS] CentOS 6 and screenshot of website

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Thu Jan 5 17:50:05 UTC 2012


On 01/05/2012 01:53 PM, Jani Ollikainen wrote:
> On 5.1.2012 13:52, John Hodrien wrote:
>> So he wants to be able to capture an image of what a website looks like from
>> the command line, and not really take a screenshot at all.
>> I think that's a fair summary anyway...
>
> Yes, well, not native english speaker so I would call those screenshots
> of the website, or maybe screen capture would be better but it's still
> almost the same :) If I would say picture of a website, it to me
> would sound something less describing than screenshot.
>
> I thought linking up two example programs doing it would describe
> it. But it seems people didn't open/read the URLs. As the one was:
> http://www.coderholic.com/pywebshot-generate-website-thumbnails-using-python/
>
> "Here’s an example of running PyWebShot with 3 URLs, and the resulting
> images:
>
> $ ./pywebshot.py -t 500x250 http://www.coderholic.com
> http://geomium.com/update/598/ http://jobs.plasis.co.uk
> Loading http://www.coderholic.com... saved as www.coderholic.com.png
> Loading http://geomium.com/update/598/... saved as
> geomium.com.update.598..png
> Loading http://jobs.plasis.co.uk... saved as jobs.plasis.co.uk.png"
>
> But your capture-website example is good description what I'm looking
> for that would work on the components available in CentOS 6 (or
> some well known 3rd party repository, not replacing too much of
> the normal system).
>
> Now my solution was to compile gnome-python2-extras with changes to
> .spec and as some one commented Mozilla has dropped support for
> gtkmozembed so that solution doesn't seem to be long lived and
> some other option would be nice.

Maybe recompile Fedoras 'gnome-web-photo" package?
http://vertito.blogspot.com/2008/02/howto-thumbnail-website-from-linux.html


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