How can I generate a screenshot of a webpage using a server-side script?

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Colargol picture Colargol · Apr 3, 2009 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

I need a server-side script (PHP, Python) to capture a webpage to a PNG, JPG, Tiff, GIF image and resize them to a thumbnail.

What is the best way to accomplish this?

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Can Berk Güder picture Can Berk Güder · Apr 3, 2009

You can probably write something similar to webkit2png, unless your server already runs Mac OS X.

UPDATE: I just saw the link to its Linux equivalent: khtml2png

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