Web page capture util

Shawn Badger sbadger at cskauto.com
Mon Aug 28 15:42:50 MST 2006


That doesn't look like it will work for me. Based on you suggestion
about Firefox extensions, causes me to wonder if there is an extension
for Firefox that will allow you to script it from the command line.  I
know you can specify how big and which page to open to from the command
line, but it would work for me if I could have it open a page and then
save the complete page to a directory. Then I could us a different
unknown app to convert that information to a pdf or something.


On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:51 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte alex at crackpot.org so:
> 
> > Quoting Shawn Badger <sbadger at cskauto.com>:
> >
> >> Does anyone know of a CLI app that can capture a web page to a jpg or
> >> better a pdf? I need to capture a dynamic page on daily basis and e-mail
> >> the captured image to various people. I have tried using wget, but it
> >> saves some weird results. I suspect that is because the page I am
> >> polling is generated with PHP.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > wget downloads/saves the source text of the page, so if you want a jpg or 
> > pdf, I don't think that will help you.
> >
> > This app is web-based, not CLI, but it might be worth looking at : 
> > http://bluga.net/webthumb/index.php
> 
> Josh is here in town ( one of the people behind AzPHP ), so maybe you can
> convince him to let you use it on your company's intranet.
> 
> Also, there are some extensions for Firefox that will run scripts. Maybe
> you could setup Firefox to pull up the page and save it to PDF. A script
> run from cron could then poll for new files to mail out.
> 
> PrefBar is the extension I can think of off the top of my head. Not
> available from the Firefox website, but still worth looking into.
> 
> Is there a command line option to Firefox to save a URL to PDF?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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