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Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by foxhop » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #39

foxhop wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkPeek.com == web scale It could get expensive but we did hours of research when developing this solution so that it will scale and keep costs down.

Not wanting to be _too_ snarky, but I hardly think "hours of research" translates to "web scale". Do you _honestly_ think you could keep this up if, say, someone wrote a Wordpress plugin that automatically linked all your eBay sales screenshots into your blog, and Wordpress then installed it on their hosted service? (Maybe I'm using the term "web scale" wrong, but in my head "web scale" means "the sort of problems Go…

I agree, I was sort of mocking the term 'web scale' as a joke. At this point we wouldn't be able to scale automatically but with some reasonable metrics we could plan capacity accordingly.

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by foxhop » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 10:38 PM UTC

derleth wrote: post #40

There are both Firefox and Chromium extensions to do this. What does this service do that they do not?

Automatic, self updating, embedable solution.

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by mahmud » Mon, Dec 05, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

foxhop wrote: post #70

http://linkpeek.com/screenshot-news-and-updates LinkPeek.com Apology Mon Dec 5 16:59:32 EST 2011 I am truly sorry for the grotesque and disgusting imagery posted on our site this morning. I left the "most recent" image on the website even though multiple people warned me about the possible misuse. I blame only myself. I lost my lunch today. My nerves are all messed up. I have worked on the LinkPeek software for the p…

Naah, wasn't that big of a deal. If anything, it was a security lesson for all of us, albeit a very vivid one.

Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image

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Post by j45 » Tue, Dec 06, 2011, 12:44 AM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #69

j45 wrote: post #20

If you don't mind me asking, which stack did you build this in? I built something identical in about to do the actual HTML --> image conversion. Took Always curious to see how many different ways the same problem can be solved. :)

I created something to do this using VNC and Firefox a few years back. At the time, people suggesting using webkit to do a simulated render (which I suppose is what you did) but we required Adobe Flash. So, I created a rotator which could create up to 20 VNC screens on demand, start firefox, and create an image using vncsnapshot.

Neat, vncsnapshot would be a cool way to get output out of multiple browsers too. :)