mechanize print to pdf

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How do I grab a thumbnail screenshot of many websites?

I wrote a script using perl mechanize to login and fetch a page. How can I "print" that page to "pdf" directly from my perl script? I'd like to save a snapshot of how it looks in the browser.

I can get the html using $mech->content();

See my answer in [Suggestions for Creating an Image for Each Word in a Text](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7820994/46395). PDF output is supported, and it will be a *real* PDF with selectable text and stuff, not just a huge embedded bitmapped screenshot. There isn't a Mechanize-compatible frontend for this module yet, but it can't be too difficult to write one, because [the previous version has one](http://p3rl.org/Gtk2::WebKit::Mechanize). — daxim, Jan 27 '12 at 10:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '12 at 10:51

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Check out wkhtmltopdf - there are variants for PDF and images (PNG etc). It's basically a command-line tool wrapping the webkit html engine. Works quite nicely, and it's cross-platform too. Whether you can get it past your login form will depend on how the target site works.

answered Jan 27 '12 at 10:51

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This does not integrate with Mechanize. – daxim Jan 27 '12 at 10:52
@daxim What do you mean by "integrate"? You take the HTML from Mechanize and you feed it to wkhtmltopdf. – Schwern Jan 27 '12 at 10:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 10:54

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There's a number of CPAN modules to convert HTML to PDF. Feed any of them the content from Mechanize.

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score -2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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The $mech contain plain html so you can't just print it. Check this thread: How do I grab a thumbnail screenshot of many websites?

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answered Jan 27 '12 at 06:05

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