Are there bindings for layout engines like Gecko or WebKit for Perl? I found Gtk2-Webkit on CPAN but I would like to know if there are other options.
My idea is to use one of those engines to create thumbnails of web pages from a Perl script.
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I haven't tried it myself, but the documentation for WWW::Mechanize::FireFox looks pretty impressive.
Update:
Tried it now. This rocks. You can indeed remote-control Firefox whatever way you want and create screen-shots easily.
innaM
2009-11-13 13:38:59
I don't see a way to create screenshot from it's documentation.
Alexandr Ciornii
2009-11-13 14:32:55
Look at the content_as_png method.
innaM
2009-11-13 14:56:33
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XUL::Gui allows you to create GUI applications using Firefox. I am not sure if this corresponds to your needs, but it would be an interesting module to examine.
Update: XUL::Gui indeed is an interesting module to examine, but I did not realize how far WWW::Mechanize::Firefox had come.
Sinan Ünür
2009-11-13 13:44:08
But I think that XUL::Gui supports only a subset of HTML and there is no way to have an image of the rendered content.
munissor
2009-11-13 15:31:09
XUL::Gui supports all of HTML, all of XUL, and any other tag you want (created at runtime with the 'tag' and 'object' functions). @munissor => speaking as the author, was there anything in the XUL::Gui documentation that implied a limited subset? if so I'll be sure to fix it.
Eric Strom
2009-11-17 21:43:40
I agree with Sinan though that WWW::Mechanize::Firefox is probably a better fit for this task.
Eric Strom
2009-11-17 22:10:31