Comments on: Webthumb

By: Ajaxian » Adding AJAX to a website step by step

Ajaxian » Adding AJAX to a website step by step — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:54:15 +0000

[...] The Webthumb mentioned there is a pet project of his, allowing for the generation of thumbnails taken directly of websites (more on that here). He uses an updated to this application as his illustration. [...]

By: Sean Coates

Sean Coates — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:34:53 +0000

There was a utility in KDE that would take screenshots from the command line, using KHTML. I can’t remember its name, right off, but IIRC it had something to do with either screensavers or desktop backgrounds.

By: Cal Evans

Cal Evans — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:29:12 +0000

Joshua,

Very cool tool. Worked fine for me the first time I used it.

=C=

By: PHPDeveloper.org

PHPDeveloper.org — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:21:49 +0000

Joshua Eichorn: Webthumb…

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By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:31:17 +0000

It seems that a large number of urls wouldn’t load complete and my they would do so in a way that it would never be caught by my timeout handler. I hacked in a extra gtk timeout to run the snapshot after 5 seconds in those situations and it got things working again. I’ll have to clean that up long term.

Anyhow all your images are available now and things should be running smoothly.

By: Ivo Jansch

Ivo Jansch — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:30:45 +0000

Mine isn’t showing up either.

Will you make this available api-style so site directories can use this to generate thumbnails for sites that they link to?

Here is a similar website: http://v03.browsershots.org/

This one renders the site on a whole set of different browsers. Maybe you can get some ideas from there.

By: Martin Holzhauer

Martin Holzhauer — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:16:15 +0000

There is also a nice websitefor taking Screenshots of you website with safari browser
http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

and the author had also made an Internet Explorer version of this
http://www.danvine.com/iecapture/

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:05:26 +0000

Looks like i got a stuck job in the queue that hasn’t been caught by the timeout handler :-(. I’m removing it manually.

Snapshotting the entire page as an image might be possible but it would be quite a bit harder. Im actually using GTK to grab the snapshot right now, getting the entire page would mean figure out a mozilla api solution which is a very hard problem.

That or some sort of hacking involving scrolling which may be possible but sounds like a lot of work (and is beyond my needs).

By: Links

Links — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:36:38 +0000

Webthumb…

Webthumb. Josh releases a website for taking pictures of web sites, and promises to open source the renderer…….

By: Myles

Myles — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:34:44 +0000

Nice hack, Josh. Unfortunately mine hasn’t shown up yet (been waiting around 10-15 minutes). It would also be neat if it could do the entire page and render it as one long image.