How to convert a web page into an image using MATLAB?

Question

This task is very hard to finish in other programming languages,

what about in MATLAB?

Answer 1

you could install one of these firefox plugins (along with firefox), make a system call to firefox from your program with the appropriate arguments to firefox, and voila, you have a program that takes screenshots of a web page.

Answer 2

Not sure if you're looking for a pure MATLAB solution. But if you have Python handy, take a look at PyWebShot. Then, you can just call the Python script from MATLAB using the exclamation mark syntax, etc.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if Matlab is the best way to do this, but here's how:

1. use Matlab's built-in web function to open your webpage in a Matlab browser
2. Download and use the ScreenCapture utility from the Matlab File Exchange to save a screenshot to file

If you need finer-grained control, you can use Java's java.awt.Robot.createScreenCapture to take a screenshot that you can then save. This can be done from within Matlab (it is actually the basis of the ScreenCapture utility), or from standalone Java code.

Answer 4

I have no idea how to do that in MATLAB (nor why would you want to do that in MATLAB, unless it's a part of something larger) ... but there is a specialized plugin for Firefox, for doing just that ... FireShot. Works nicely, no fussing about.