Web page capture util

[Slide]

I've not seen the URL to the page that you are trying to capture come
through, it might help tailor a solution to your task...


On 8/28/06, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte Shawn Badger so:
>
> > 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.
>
> Description: XML-to-any converter
>
>   xmlto is a front-end to an XSL toolchain. It chooses an appropriate
>   stylesheet for the conversion you want and applies it using an external
>   XSLT processor (currently, only xsltproc is supported). It also performs
>   any necessary post-processing.
>   .
>   It supports converting from DocBook XML to DVI, XSL-FO, HTML (multiple
>   pages), HTML (one page), man page, PDF, PostScript, and plain text. It
>   supports converting from XSL-FO to DVI, PDF and PostScript.
>
>   See the homepage for more information: http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/
>
> For the suggestion from slide there is ps2pdf. It's in the gs-common
> package on debian.
>
> I'm pretty certain there's an extension to save a page via a client-run
> cron of some sort.
>
> Maybe ScrapBook or another extension has a way to call it from the command
> line.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/
>
> konqueror might have a way to save pages from the command line. Poke
> around with dcop or kdcop :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> >
> >
> > 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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