Rendering website thumbnail previews

[gentmaster]

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]

Anyone do this before?

[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

[gentmaster]

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.

[Epay-rob]

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..

[webkoj]

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)