capture and display thumbnail of url

[aznFETISH]

Any idea how places like http://girafa.com/ and http://www.thumbshots.net/ are able to do this

http://www.thumbshots.com provides the service but I can't pay 25$ a month for the low volume that I would use it for

The closest thing I have been able to find is here http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/index.html which doesn't look to promising

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: capture and display thumbnail of url


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> Any idea how places like http://girafa.com/ and http://www.thumbshots.net/
> are able to do this[/color]

By using an HTML rendering engine like Mozilla's Gecko and save/display the
pictures.

A description of how to this with Mozilla on a *nix system, see:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2015327.html

JW

[aznFETISH]

Re: capture and display thumbnail of url

I think I have found a solution for me

http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?i=%204ac8babd1cf73ace&s=MSNSEARCH&cy=en-us&r=URL

Will show me a thumbnail screen shot of pretty much any site I tried so I
think I can just grab these from the database of url's and save a coppy to
my site
"aznFETISH" <news@aznfetish .com> wrote in message
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Any idea how places like http://girafa.com/ and http://www.thumbshots.net/
are able to do this

http://www.thumbshots.com provides the service but I can't pay 25$ a month
for the low volume that I would use it for

The closest thing I have been able to find is here
http://www.babysimon.co.uk/khtml2png/index.html which doesn't look to
promising