[CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

[Michael Abbondanza]

Could try https://screenshotlayer.com/

I have had success automating their API.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, August 11, 2016 5:13 pm, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > 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?
>
> This involves a person sitting with open web browser and clicking mouse. I
> need to do it for a few webpages once a day, as they change daily. I
> prefer to once spend time on making cron job, and forget about it forever.
> Hence I need it done from command line.
>
> Valeri
>
> >
> > D
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>
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> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Valeri Galtsev
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> University of Chicago
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