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Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by thefalcon »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #40
poldol wrote: post #37

Your landing page is lacking metadata, probably worth adding to attract clicks when sharing on slack/friends.

Interested 3rd party... What metadata would you say is essential?

Good ones to start with:

og:image

og:title

og:description

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/open-graph-meta-tags/

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by nkkollaw »

scrollaway wrote: post #19
jamessb wrote: post #16

You could do pretty much the same thing by running something like wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage from cron. Like blit, this will "even take screenshots behind login forms" if you login with Firefox, export cookies, and provide the --cookie-jar argument, but without charging $5/mo. [1]: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

I actually can't tell if this comment is serious, or sarcastically referencing the dropbox comment from a few years ago.

Haha, I thought the same thing!

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by nkkollaw »

amelius wrote: post #27
jamessb wrote: post #16

You could do pretty much the same thing by running something like wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage from cron. Like blit, this will "even take screenshots behind login forms" if you login with Firefox, export cookies, and provide the --cookie-jar argument, but without charging $5/mo. [1]: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

How would this approach deal with popups such as "This site uses cookies", or "please subscribe"? Can these popups somehow be prevented from ruining the final image?

If the server isn't in Europe, you'd solve the cookie thing on most websites.

Subscribe modals are often triggered by mouse movement, so they might be avoided, too?

Re: Show HN: Automated, scheduled, website screenshots to your inbox

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Post by foxhop »

billconan wrote: post #38
foxhop wrote: post #30

I'm the founder of https://linkpeek.com and "email web page screenshots" was on my "idea" Trello board for over 3 years. I'm actually happy somebody else created it. : ) Good luck with your launch!

is linkpeek a profitable business? what's the use cases for screenshot services?

Yes LinkPeek makes me profits. The use case appears to vary a _lot_ between customers. Either this is an indicator that I have not targeted or found my market or I have not marketed to my target properly.
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