Automated screenshots?

Question

I need a tool to make screenshots of every page on a rather large site so I'm looking for a tool that can (best case scenario) automatically spider the site and create screenshots of every page in a folder or (plan B) a browser plug-in that automatically takes a screenshot of every page I load/visit and saves it to my drive.

Answer 1

Hi, not exactly what you're looking for, but TimeSnapper could be a good place to start.

Answer 2

I don't know if it does exactly what you want, but the Fireshot plugin for firefox can take screenshots of the entire page, and not just the part that is rendered.

IIRC you can configure it to save the file to a directory with a running number.

As an added bonus, you can annotate the screenshots using arrows and boxes, but I don't think thats what you are looking for; although very handy when getting change requests from QA/Customer.

Answer 3

I think that a combination of WGet and html2ps would do the trick. wget downloads the web pages, html2ps renders the html files and converts them to images. html2ps will render postscript files, which would primarily be good for printing, but I'm sure that similar utilities exist to render to .jpg or what have you.

Answer 4

http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/

"Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages. These images can be saved in PNG or JPEG format. Using Page Saver, you can capture an entire page or just the visible portion. Options let you control whether images are captured at full size (which is the default) or scaled down to a smaller size."

Answer 5

If you are still looking for a method to automate this, a combination of "wget -r" to get all the URLs of that site and BrowserSeal.Robot

http://www.browserseal.com/?option=com%5Fcontent&view=article&id=29

will do the trick

Answer 6

Hi,

I've just made an automated screenshot application available, it basically takes a list of sites and then takes screenshots of them. It uses XULRunner, so a Mozilla based application and works with Flash and gets around dialog prompts that might stop the process -

More info and download -

http://blog.builtwith.com/index.php/2010/07/02/mozilla-automated-website-screen-grabber/

Gary