On Thu, August 11, 2016 4:13 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote: > 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? > Thanks! It didn't occur to me. It will be much more sophisticated than just an image "snapshot" of the webpage, but should solve our problem. If I don't find anything doing "snapshot" successfully, this is what I will do. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++