Take a screenshot / Snapshot from a website

[discoverclips]

Is it possible to take some kind of a screenshot of any website with php?
I've seen some websites that do this, can it be done with php?

[n0other]

Everything's possible. You would need to have an X server running on your host if you're on a *nix machine. Launch the browser via shell command, passing site's url as an argument (should be possible no?), and take the screenshot using tool such as scrot. Crop , scale and save it - there you go. If your on a windows box, you would probably be able to use com objects, but that's not a field I know about..

[dave487]

http://www.thumbshots.org/

[discoverclips]

thanks for the link dave, looks good..I'll check it out :)
somebody on sitepoint pointed me to a link, you can download a program called
webswoon which is written in python that does this..
http://www.intellitamper.com/webswoon/

[legend2]

there are perl scripts around that do that. search it up:)