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Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by derwiki »

lewsid wrote: post #26

I built a similar tool called GeoPeeker ( http://www.geopeeker.com ) that does this as well, but does so from a number of different geographic locations. Handy for trouble-shooting DNS and CDN issues. I too submitted it to Hacker News but alas, it found no love. C'est la vie!

Very nice!

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by lewsid »

gerry_shaw wrote: post #28
lewsid wrote: post #26

I built a similar tool called GeoPeeker ( http://www.geopeeker.com ) that does this as well, but does so from a number of different geographic locations. Handy for trouble-shooting DNS and CDN issues. I too submitted it to Hacker News but alas, it found no love. C'est la vie!

Well of all the people that posted links to alternates yours was the only one that worked. Great app and nice execution.

Thanks! You've no idea how much I appreciate the kind words. I've put a good deal of work into it, and have a number of new features currently under development.

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by alexscheelmeyer »

mayank wrote: post #14
joshmlewis wrote: post #12

I was needing a service that took a screenshot of a site but at a wide width. Every service I found online took it at like 1000px or right at the cut off of the layout and I wanted it to show more. It's crazy in Chrome I can't seem to find a decent tool that takes a shot of the entire web page.

You could write something like this yourself in about 5 lines of code using PhantomJS: http://phantomjs.org/ Check out rasterize.js in their examples section.

And for that extra API goodness you could do it through node and expose your fancy wide-screenshot-app to the world : https://github.com/alexscheelmeyer/node-phantom

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by newsreader »

lewsid wrote: post #26

I built a similar tool called GeoPeeker ( http://www.geopeeker.com ) that does this as well, but does so from a number of different geographic locations. Handy for trouble-shooting DNS and CDN issues. I too submitted it to Hacker News but alas, it found no love. C'est la vie!

Great site and thanks for sharing. http://Site2Pic.com also mentioned in this thread works just fine.

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by cfinke »

Before SearchMe was shut down and had its assets liquidated, I built the tool that took all of the screenshots for the search results. (SeRPs were presented as a series of screenshots rather than a list of links; see http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/searchme-launches-new-searc... for some examples.) The toughest thing to get right was consistent screenshots of Java and Flash content.

I can't get your app to load, but does it handle at least those two plugins? If so, how? And if not, do you plan to change that?

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by soneca »

lewsid wrote: post #33
gerry_shaw wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well of all the people that posted links to alternates yours was the only one that worked. Great app and nice execution.

Thanks! You've no idea how much I appreciate the kind words. I've put a good deal of work into it, and have a number of new features currently under development.

Great job, but for the one thing I think it would be useful, it is not.

I built this website (www.portacomprimido.com.br or www.pillorganizer.co) in Portuguese and translated to english. It is supposed to check your browser's language and serve the proper language - portuguese for PT-BR, english for all others (doesn't matter which URL you use, both are the same website).

As I not very sure of my coding skills, I wanted to check it, so I asked a friend of mine living in the USA to check it for me. I thought your website would be a easier way to check it, but it is not. All locations show the english version, even the ones supposed to be from "Sâo Paulo, Brazil". If you can correct this, it would be a nice feature.

Re: Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

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Post by lewsid »

soneca wrote: post #38
lewsid wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! You've no idea how much I appreciate the kind words. I've put a good deal of work into it, and have a number of new features currently under development.

Great job, but for the one thing I think it would be useful, it is not. I built this website (www.portacomprimido.com.br or www.pillorganizer.co) in Portuguese and translated to english. It is supposed to check your browser's language and serve the proper language - portuguese for PT-BR, english for all others (doesn't matter which URL you use, both are the same website). As I not very sure of my coding skills, I wan…

Thanks for the feedback Soneca. I'm currently working on a feature that will let you change your user agent and language to address this issue. This, and other new features will be hitting GeoPeeker in early November.
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