[CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

Thu Aug 11 22:32:07 UTC 2016
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Thu, August 11, 2016 5:27 pm, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 8/11/2016 3:10 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> 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.
>
> then screen capture is about it.... too many sites, ALL the content is
> dynamic, for instance,
> https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9460899,-122.0268105,664a,20y,41.31t/data=!3m1!1e3
>
> that page is composed of tiles of image data superimposed on the fly
> with ajax code running in the browser to fetch the layers displayed.
>
> you simply can't fetch the html and make any sense out of it, the
> browser is running a complex application to display that.
>

Yes, I understand as much, thanks. I'm still sure it is not hopeless task.

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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