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Re: Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

#101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> cough-Lex Friedman-cough Oh please elaborate!

listen to any episode and it's evident

Yeah I mean I gathered that, still would be interesting to know what specifically he lied about.

Re: Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

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post #6

Being a bit frustrated with Linkwarden’s resource usage, I’ve thought about making my own self hosted bookmarking service. This could be a low effort way of loading screenshots for these links, very cool! It‘ll be interesting how many concurrent requests this can process.

Have you looked into Wallabag?

Thanks for the tip, this looks interesting. The iOS app seems not well designed, not sure I‘d use this over the My Links app (which I could use if I made a Linkwarden compatible API).

Re: Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

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post #4

For anyone who might not be aware, Chrome also has the ability to save screenshots from the command line using: chrome --headless --screenshot="path/to/save/screenshot.png" --disable-gpu --window-size=1280,720 " https://www.example.com "

> Chrome also has the ability to save screenshots

Too bad that no browser is able to print a web page.

Re: Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

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post #4

For anyone who might not be aware, Chrome also has the ability to save screenshots from the command line using: chrome --headless --screenshot="path/to/save/screenshot.png" --disable-gpu --window-size=1280,720 " https://www.example.com "

Does anyone know whether this would also be possible with Firefox, including explicit extensions (i.e. uBlock) and explicit configured block lists or other settings for these extensions?

Re: Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

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post #84

I thought it was a scale of code that could have been included in Abbe. https://github.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence/abbey Was the motivation for separating it based on security considerations, as stated in the "Security Considerations"? https://github.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence/ScrapeServ?tab...

Yes, sort of - that and scaling reasons. It's actually in that same repo now but in a different service. I'd like to remove it from the Abbey repo entirely eventually.

Thank you! I’ll also try to focus on building a scalable architecture.
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