[CentOS] convert webpage to image

Mihai T. Lazarescu mtlagm at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 15:00:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 03:38:33PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> But what if the size of the website is larger than the screen
> size?  I assume the OP wants to "see" the whole website in a
> single picture, and the website might span more than a single
> visible screen (and require scrolling to see the whole thing).
>
> All screenshot-related methods would then need to take
> multiple pictures, scroll the website in the browser a
> "windowfull" at a time in all directions, and afterwards
> calculate how to concatenate all those pictures into a
> big one.  While this can be done in principle, I think that
> any implementation would get Real Ugly Real Soon(tm).
>
> A more reasonable approach would be to have the browser
> itself dump the image of the site --- the browser is the one
> actually rendering the thing from html in the first place.
> Any browser plugins around for this?

Among those interactive, the Screengrab Firefox extension
does it.  Among those non-interactive, phantomjs should do it.

Mihai



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