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Full length Website Screenshot with khtml2png

Posted by mypapit on 25 Aug 2006 in Open Source, Other Downloads

Today I read that two bloggers has been recommending Webshots , a freeware application to take full length website screenshot in Microsoft Windows and is unavailable to users of other operating system such as GNU/Linux, *BSD and Solaris.

khtml2png is a free software application which can also take full length website screenshot like Webshots does, except it works on unix like platform such as GNU/Linux and flavors of BSD.

The software depends on libkhtml (from kdelibs KDE project) to render website and ‘convert’ from ImageMagick to create the actual screenshot.

Originally the software can only output screenshot in lossless PNG format, but the latest version however is able to support as many output format as ImageMagick support including jpg, gif, png and bmp to suit your needs.

Please refer to khtml2png website for sample website screenshot produced by khtml2png.

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1. aizat Said:
   August 25th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

   Might be interested in this extension for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1146/

2. mypapit Said:
   August 25th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

   Whoa, thanks zatto for pointing it out :)

3. e107.org: Forums / Plugin Requests / links plugin with site screenshots (links for code included) Said:
   September 6th, 2006 at 4:23 pm

   [...] Post Sqwob Wed Sep 06 2006, 03:08AM Registered Member #26008Joined: Tue Mar 21 2006, 05:00PMposts: 134I would really like to see this in a e107 plugin, and hope that there are coders out there that feel the same:info about how this can be implemented is here: Back to top [...]

4. Screen Shot - YoungCoders Computer Programmers Forum Said:
   September 20th, 2006 at 7:32 pm

   [...] you can do that with java Realy? How do you know this? Yeah, you would need some kind of background app + ScreenGrab for Firefox lets you take a picture Thanks guys, but i carnt realy use a background app, i do have root on my server, but i intend to release my sites as scripts, and theifore dont realy want to use these. ou may want to read about Vischeck to see how they do it. Ahh, That script reads the html, and then changes color, then saves the html. Ive contacted anyway, to see if i can convert it, but i need it to have images. ————— What i have found: khtml2png is a free software application which can also take full length website screenshot [...]

5. e107.org: Forums / Plugin Requests / links plugin with site screenshots (links for code included) Said:
   February 11th, 2007 at 8:46 am

   [...] I would really like to see this in a e107 plugin, and hope that there are coders out there that feel the same:info about how this can be implemented is here: [...]

6. Jake Devine Said:
   June 20th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

   Thanks for the tip.

   I wrote up a quick how-to for running khtml2png on a server. Also included is a patch for khtml2png to generate thumbnails.

   http://blogs.nitobi.com/jake/index.php/2007/05/09/website-screenshots-on-linux/

7. trent Said:
   August 27th, 2007 at 2:28 am

   I found this site recently, ThumbnailsPro, they mention that they are currently free while in beta but have the highest quality thumbnails on the web! and they are FREE! Any sizes available up to 1000pixels WOW!, thats Thumbnailspro.com