Convert Any Webpage to an Image • Hacker News Board

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by sumukh1 » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:26 AM UTC

There might already be services like this, but I'd love something that quickly that will let me see how my page renders in IE 6+7/8 and also runs validation and speed tests. (quickly is the key word)

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by foxhop » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

grusk wrote: post #15

Oh thanks OP. Goatse on the right. Lovely.

Sorry, our users are posting NSFW images.

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by simplycomplex » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:30 AM UTC

Please mark it as NSFW :)

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by humbyvaldes » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

I noticed YouTube videos don't work... webs fonts work so that's good

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by zalew » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:37 AM UTC

rbrcurtis wrote: post #19

what does your tech stack look like? how are you generating images?

I guess webkit2png

http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/rotapken/2008/12/03/creat...

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by abcd_f » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:39 AM UTC

foxhop wrote: post #2

This is my startup MVP software. Please test it out and let me know what you think.

Do you have 1:1 screenshots available? Being able to generate a website screenshot for specific OS/browser on demand might be a far better niche than trying to compete in a thumbnail segment (even if you will deliver a better service, there's a SEO battle to consider - make sure you know how to win it).

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by barmstrong » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:40 AM UTC

ShrinkTheWeb.com has been around a while and (I think) made a decent small business out of this. However, their site is horrific and it's pretty expensive.

A more recent alternative I've used is url2png.com which has been great.

edit: sorry, not thumbalizr, meant url2png

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by mnutt » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

rezaman wrote: post #18

Nicely done. I released something similar a month ago: http://instantscreenshot.com Do you plan on charging for this at some point? I've noticed my bandwidth costs are double due to the traffic coming to my site and the traffic my site generates to get the screenshot.

Along the same lines, url2png has a really nice API: http://url2png.com/

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by abcd_f » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

Hash-banged pages are not properly supported, e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/username. It is easy to add - have a look at _escaped_fragment notation.

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by jot » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 4:46 AM UTC

Have needed a service like this a few times. Current favorite solution is: http://url2png.com/ How do you differentiate LinkPeek?