Rendering website thumbnail previews

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  • gentmaster
    So Fucking Banned
    • Jun 2005
    • 432

    #1

    Rendering website thumbnail previews

    Hi all. I am so under the gun, I though this would be easy to implement. How do the review sites do it? Is there a script available and does it need to be installed server side?

  • gentmaster
    So Fucking Banned
    • Jun 2005
    • 432

    #2
    Anyone do this before?

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    • whyaskwhy
      Registered User
      • Aug 2002
      • 61

      #3
      if you are on a unix based server then www.imagemagick.org is your answer.

      convert is a nice utility to do this if you install imagemagick
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      • gentmaster
        So Fucking Banned
        • Jun 2005
        • 432

        #4
        Originally posted by whyaskwhy
        if you are on a unix based server then www.imagemagick.org is your answer.

        convert is a nice utility to do this if you install imagemagick
        Thanks for the tip. But I should clarify, I need a script that will render website homepages themselves into thumbnails. Similar to Alexa and porn review sites.

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        • Epay-rob
          Registered User
          • Jul 2005
          • 9

          #5
          there is a program somewhere thats called iecapture or screen_capture...
          its an exe file thats takes screenshots from a .txt file. it runs on local machine..perhaps it might be usefull..but i dont have any idea where its comming from..
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          • webkoj
            Registered User
            • Jul 2005
            • 10

            #6
            http://www.websupergoo.com/abcdrawhtml-1.htm


            heres a free .net library for it.

            with linux you could use xvfb.. i know there are better things out there.. just dont know them personally.. xvfb would probably be fine as long as you dont intend on taking thousands of screenshots (since it would use some decent resources)

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