How can I take a screenshot of website with Perl?

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How can I take screenshots with Perl?

How can I take a screenshot from a site (in batch mode) using Perl? I.e. solution should produce image file (say .png) given an URL. It would be nice, if no X Window system will be required for solution to work.

Answer 1

I'd use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox. Unfortunately it does need X (at least on non-OS X *NIX), but you can use xvfb to run it headless.

Answer 2

In the past I needed to convert a web page to PDF. I used http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ and it worked beautifully (it's using the excellent WebKit engine). Problem is it's not Perl-based and it doesn't produce an image, but a PDF. Try it, it might suit your needs (` No longer requires an XServer to be running (however the X11 client libs must be installed' )

Answer 3

If your going to go beyond screen shots, finding a binding for Watir would be my advice. The ability to get javascript, java/flash/activex embedd scripting working is nice (for some value of nice)