Rendering Website Thumbnail Previews like the review sites and Alexa
 

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 server script available that can let me set the snapshot size? I've googled and the scripts I've found are XP/Windows based.

Is there a php or html solution? :helpme

hmm anybody? i need to bump this. :helpme

i need to bump this

it is not technically possible without doing the rendering, so you either have to do a screen cap in x windows (not installed on *nix servers usually) or in windows. the latter is programmatically easier to do. sorry to rain on your parade.

icq me

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There is one for Linux which is what alex uses I used it myself awhile ago works using konqueror and it's free trouble is I can't remember it's name sorry.

seems like what you need is to have a php app that maintains the db, then have a custom xp app with a simple browser control on it that loops through the db and loads the pages in IE (usually pages are written to be rendered by ie rather than a good browser like konq) and screenshots, saves and uploads the images to the db. this is the 2 hour solution

Been there, done that. Was kind of a bitch to make it work but I used this as a starting point.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2015327.html

Then just use imagemagick to tweak the image to your liking.