Quoting Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>: > > On Thu, August 11, 2016 5:02 pm, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 8/11/2016 1:46 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> 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... >> >> many/most webpages these days are heavily dynamic content, a static >> snapshot would likely break. plus any site-relative links on that >> snapshot would be pointing to your server, not the original, any ajax >> code on that webpage would try to interact with your server which won't >> be running the right back end stuff, etcetc. > > I usually am not good at explaining what I need. I really only need an > image of what one would see in web browser if one point to that URL. I do > not care it to be interactive. I also don't want to get the content > ("mirror") of stuff that URL points to on variety of "depths" - I don't > want to use wget or curl for this reason. That is what I tried first and > it breaks with at lest one of the web sites - they do seem protect > themselves from "robots" or similar. And we don't need it. We just need to > show what they page shows today, that's all. > > Valeri why not File -> Print -> .pdf? D > >> >> -- >> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz >> > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." -- John Dewey