[magick-users] Website screenshots (with script)

[Henryk Gerlach]

Hi List,

i was trying to make screenshots of websites. 
In an earlier discussion some proposed 
$ convert index.html jpgindex.jpg

but i get the following error:

sh: line 1: -U: command not found
convert: No decode delegate for this image format (/tmp/magicmReryc)

so i wrote a script myself. It fires up mozilla, takes a screeshot etc. 
I use Xvnc, because I don't need to see, what the script is doing, but you may 
leave VIRTUAL_X empty and set DISPLAY  to ":0"  (or whatever your display is) 
to see, what's happening.

The script is not really that reliable, but it might be a good start. It works 
for me on SuSE Linux 9.0.
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#!/bin/sh

# A script to take screenshots of webpages.
#
# Example usage: webthumb.sh << END
# http://www.mozilla.org	mozilla.png	  mozilla_thmb.png
# http://www.imagemagick.org    imagemagick.png   imagemagick_thmb.png
# http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/xvnc.html xvnc.png xvnc_thmb.png
# END
#
# Requires:
# 	* ImageMagick
#	* Mozilla
#	* Xvnc (as Virtual X server), you might also fire up X.org for that purpose
#
# Author: Henryk Gerlach (2005-01-01)
# No warranty, use at own risk.
# This script is Public Domain. All the hard work is done third party software 
anyway.

#BUGS:
# Mozilla:
#	* -geometry does not work with mozilla
#	* if mozilla already runs under the userid it might not start up.
#	* if mozilla needs to be configured for the userid running it, the script 
won't work


BROWSER=mozilla

#The window title of the browser after startup, so we can grab it's window id.
#If all fails, take root to grab the whole desktop
BROWSERID="Mozilla" 
#BROWSERID="root"

DISPLAY=":1"
#Use virtual X server
VIRTUAL_X="Xvnc -depth 16 -localhost -geometry 1024x768 $DISPLAY"

#cut of browser decoration for 800x600 resolution
CROP="800x490+0+90"
THUMBSIZE="120x90"

INITTIME=5 #time to wait for the Xserver and the browser to start up
LOADTIME=4 #time to wait for a page to load, take shot after this time

######################################################

#init
if test "$VIRTUAL_X" != ""; then
	$VIRTUAL_X &
fi
export DISPLAY
sleep $INITTIME
$BROWSER &
sleep $INITTIME
if test "$BROWSERID" != "root"; then
	BROWSERID=`xwininfo -name "$BROWSERID" | grep "Window id" | cut -d " " -f 4`
fi

# loop
while read URL BIG THUMB; do
	$BROWSER -remote "openurl($URL)"
	sleep  $LOADTIME
	import -window "$BROWSERID" $BIG
	if test "$CROP" != ""; then
		mogrify -crop $CROP "$BIG"
	fi
	convert -size "$THUMBSIZE" "$BIG" -resize "$THUMBSIZE" "$THUMB"
done

#cleanup
#this is ugly
if test "$VIRTUAL_X" != ""; then
	killall Xvnc
else
	killall $BROWSER
fi
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Happy new year,


  Henryk
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