Screenshot of webpage

Hello,

I have been trying to find some info on creating a screenshot of a webpage using Perl and/or Perl modules and if it's possible to do. IE. a URL is entered, and then create a small screenshot, a small thumbnail image, of the webpage.

I was hoping that someone here maybe able to steer me to some information on this, if infact it's feasible with Perl.

TIA,

hi,

how about Win32::CaptureIE. It should do what you want (ive never used it personally though).

Displeaser

thanks, this may do the trick. do alittle experimenting with it

Mickalo

Cool, can you post back here and let us know how you get on?

Displeaser

Thanks Displeaser.

I've been looking for something similar myself and this fit the bill. Everything installed easily and it worked perfectly for me. I even liked it enough to whip up a quick blog entry, Automated web screen shots with Perl, with a screen shot.

nice one, nice short piece of code, I'm impressed.

mighty CPAN does it again.

Displeaser

LOL...
That module needs IE....
Is there any other simple implementations for Linux platforms?

Hi,

dont think there are specific modules for this (at least on CPAN).

Have a read of this link.

It seems a lot more involved then the module mentioned above. Would be an interesting project for someone to try write a cross OS version, ie works on both linux & windows.

Hope this helps.
Displeaser

LOL? Maybe I've missed the joke somewhere.

Not Perl but executable from the command-line which makes it usable from a Perl program:

1) khtml2png - uses the KHTML engine to create a PNG image of the page in question

2) Pearl Crescent Page Saver - a Firefox extension that adds a command-line option to save a page as a PNG image (Using the Gecko rendering engine, obviously).