On 2016-08-11, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > Dear Experts, > > Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command > line on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot of webpage? > > We have a signage (xibo) and whoever creates/changes content, likes to > add URLs of some webpages there. All works well if these are webpages > on our servers (which are pretty fast), but some external servers > often take time to respond and take time to assemble the page, in > addition these servers sometimes get really busy, and when response is > longer than time devoted for that content in signage window, this > window hangs forever with blank white field until you restart client. > Trivial workaround: just to get snapshot (as, say daily cron job), and > point signage client to that snapshot definitely will solve it, and > simultaneously we will stop bugging other people servers often without > much need for it. > > But when I tried to search for some utility or script that makes > webpage snapshot, I discovered that my ability to search degraded > somehow... > > Thanks for all your pointers! > > Valeri Not an answer to the question you asked, but maybe this is a job for a caching proxy server like squid? -- Liam