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Website Screenshot (HTML5 Canvas / Services)


Alright all,



Been doing a bit of research and want to know if anyone else has tried this... and what approach would you take.



I'm planning on doing a website which will display a screenshot of a website (maybe based on the url in someones email address).



There's going to be alot of people getting this so, pre-production of the screenshots isn't a solution.



Soooooo... does anyone know of any solutions:



  1. Thumbnail service that builds on demand (no queuing)?

  2. HTML5/Canvas script that will let me do this. I've found one but it won't run cross site.

  3. Any other solution?



It'll be built in PHP.



Thanks



PVS.


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  1. This site http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ is the best you will get right now with regard to a client side script. It uses the calculated properties of elements to render a page, and I must say it looks good!

    Update:
    A demo here: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/tests/templates/projection/index.html . Click to toggle the 'real' view with the rendered image.

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  2. I've played about with wkhtmltoimage before, it was pretty good for what I was using it for, but does require you to install onto your server

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  3. You can use html2canvas. More information here.

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