rantsh Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Here's a good one for gurus. I want to develop a class, library or script that takes a screenshot of another site in real time, for instance, let's say you're googling for phpfreaks, instead of getting a text link I'd like my site to show a screenshot of the main page and show it to the user. I once saw a library like this developed in PERL by a Venezuelan company but I can't remember the URL of the site that used it.... as soon as I remember I'll post so you can all get a better idea of what I require Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/36564-clueless/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Alexa does this, as do many other reviewing sites, and http://browsershots.org/ I'm not aware of a way to do it in PHP, what browsershots.org does is add it to a list and then they have dedicated machines which automate the screenshots. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/36564-clueless/#findComment-174120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggieBear Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The module in Perl your thinking of was probably either Win32::CaptureIE or Win32::Screenshot I believe they use ImageMagick. I don't know if it's been done in PHP but I'll have a scout about. Regards Huggie Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/36564-clueless/#findComment-174122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantsh Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 Alexa does this, as do many other reviewing sites, and http://browsershots.org/ this is a COOL website, although, I don't know if maybe opening a socket and then getting a way to read the code and convert it to html, and then trying to somehow have php convert it to an image is the way to, I must say I'm clueless... PHP is a very VERY powerful language so there must be a way... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/36564-clueless/#findComment-174126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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