WebThumbnail: Capture a screenshot of a page using WebThumbnail

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Version		License		PHP version		Categories
`webthumbnail` 1.10		BSD License		5.3		PHP 5, Web services, Geography

Description

Author

Lukasz Cepowski

This class can capture a screenshot of a page using WebThumbnail.

It can send a HTTP request to the WebThumbnail API Web server to request the capture of a screenshot of a given URL.

The service will queue the request to capture the specified page screenshot using one of the supported browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera.

The screenshot image may be capture with sizes between 70 by 70 and 2048 by 4096 pixels.

The class polls the capture server to determine when the screenshot is ready to download.

The retrieved screenshot image can be copied to a local file or served for download as the current script output in the PNG, JPEG or GIF formats.

Innovation Award

May 2012
Number 2

Prize: One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine

Some sites need to show previews of how a page of another site looks.

This class can generate image previews of a given site page using the WebThumbnail service.

Manuel Lemos

Lukasz Cepowski

Name:	Lukasz Cepowski `<contact>`
Classes:	3 packages by Lukasz Cepowski
Country:	Poland

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Nominee: 1x

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Example


<?php



error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);

ini_set('display_errors', 1);

$root = dirname(dirname(__FILE__));

require $root.'/webthumbnail.php';



$thumb = new Webthumbnail("http://webthumbnail.org");

$thumb

    ->setWidth(320)

    ->setHeight(240)

    ->setScreen(1280)

    ->captureToOutput();

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                     http://webthumbnail.org

           The simplest way to get a website screenshot!

This repository contains legacy code and is no longer maintaned!

The Webthumbnail.org has recently been rebranded to Miniature.io.<br /> Visit Miniature.io for more information and new PHP client library.

1) What is webthumbnail.org? The webthumbnail.org is a free webapi for capturing website screenshots. Shortly speaking it is an web based application that you can simply integrate with your website and have thumbnails of any website on demand.

This project is a simple php client for using the api.webthumbnail.org directly from the php code. It can be used in any php application, distributed under the terms of the BSD license.

2) How to use the api? The simples case is to just call the api from pure html code.

It will show a screenshot of http://webthumbnail.org directly on your website.

3) How to capture a website screenshot from php?

$thumb = new Webthumbnail("http://webthumbnail.org"); $thumb

->setWidth(512)
->setHeight(512)
->captureToOutput();

4) How to capture a website screenshot and save it to a disk file?

$thumb = new Webthumbnail("http://webthumbnail.org"); $thumb

->setWidth(512)
->setHeight(512)
->captureToFile($path);

5) Need more info? Visit http://webthumbnail.org

Feel free to test and use the application :)

Files

File	Role	Description
`examples` (3 files)
`.project`	Data	Auxiliary data
`README.md`	Doc.	Documentation
`webthumbnail.php`	Class	The PHP wrapper class for http://webthumbnail.org

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examples

File	Role	Description
`capture_to_browser.php`	Example	Example, how to capture a website screenshot and send the image to the browser.
`capture_to_file.php`	Example	Example, how to capture a website screenshot and save the image into a disk file.
`capture_without_delay.php`	Example	Example script