Web page capture util

[der.hans]

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.

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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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