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Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by mmmooo »

condiment wrote: post #20

This looks to me to be a page-for-page clone of another url screenshot service that made it to the front page a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5257432 Compare: https://urlbox.io/docs http://www.url2picture.com/Home/Docs

and on top, looks like urlbox (properly) uses hmac!

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by dncarter »

condiment wrote: post #20

This looks to me to be a page-for-page clone of another url screenshot service that made it to the front page a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5257432 Compare: https://urlbox.io/docs http://www.url2picture.com/Home/Docs

Yeh exactly. There should be a way to downvote clones.

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by lars »

dherken wrote: post #18
lars wrote: post #15

I'll chime in and say that the company I work for was ready to pay 1200$ for a piece of software that we hoped would do this reliably. There are cheaper or even free alternatives out there, but they all had different problems. If this site is reliable and flexible, it is answering a real need in the market. Does it render in webkit?

Yes it uses webkit, and regarding reliability... It currently runs smoothly despite the hacker news traffic increase ;-)

Sorry, I meant that as in reliably renders whatever you throw at it. This where others would fail, i.e. sections of the page would be not be rendered, or they would execute javascript, but the execution would fail half way through,, it would crash if the site embedded certain resources, that kind of thing.

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by dherken »

lars wrote: post #26
dherken wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it uses webkit, and regarding reliability... It currently runs smoothly despite the hacker news traffic increase ;-)

Sorry, I meant that as in reliably renders whatever you throw at it. This where others would fail, i.e. sections of the page would be not be rendered, or they would execute javascript, but the execution would fail half way through,, it would crash if the site embedded certain resources, that kind of thing.

It runs a full blown browser in the background so it should handle most things you can throw at it.

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by SunboX »

dherken wrote: post #13
SunboX wrote: post #11

Even better, take Screenshots of any Website/App with just JavaScript and Canvas: https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas

Thats a great project, but I would need to host it myself somewhere?

nothing comes for free ;)

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by klintcho »

condiment wrote: post #20

This looks to me to be a page-for-page clone of another url screenshot service that made it to the front page a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5257432 Compare: https://urlbox.io/docs http://www.url2picture.com/Home/Docs

Exactly what i was thinking as soon as i saw this one. Isn't urlbox free?

Re: Show HN: Embed Full-Page Screenshots in any Blog / App / Whatever

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Post by jmathai »

dncarter wrote: post #25
condiment wrote: post #20

This looks to me to be a page-for-page clone of another url screenshot service that made it to the front page a couple weeks ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5257432 Compare: https://urlbox.io/docs http://www.url2picture.com/Home/Docs

Yeh exactly. There should be a way to downvote clones.

Clones often aren't exact clones and have nuances which differentiate them. Sometimes the nuances are very important.
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