I have a list of 2500 websites and need to grab a thumbnail screenshot of them. How do I do that?
I could try to parse the sites either with Perl or Python, Mechanize would be a good thing. But I am not so experienced with Perl.
I have a list of 2500 websites and need to grab a thumbnail screenshot of them. How do I do that?
I could try to parse the sites either with Perl or Python, Mechanize would be a good thing. But I am not so experienced with Perl.
Here is Perl solution:
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new();
$mech->get('http://google.com');
my $png = $mech->content_as_png();
From the docs:
Returns the given tab or the current page rendered as PNG image.
All parameters are optional. $tab defaults to the current tab. If the coordinates are given, that rectangle will be cut out. The coordinates should be a hash with the four usual entries, left,top,width,height.
This is specific to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.
Currently, the data transfer between Firefox and Perl is done Base64-encoded. It would be beneficial to find what's necessary to make JSON handle binary data more gracefully.