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 Quote Link to comment 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. Quote Link to comment 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 Quote Link to comment 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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