From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 11 23:05:04 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD7ABB7FB0 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:05:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from www81.your-server.de (www81.your-server.de [213.133.104.81]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65A631E93 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from [77.23.79.25] (helo=workstation) by www81.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXyez-0002vF-Ay; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:41:09 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Valeri Galtsev" Subject: Re: script to make webpage snapshot References: <33717.128.135.52.6.1470954497.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:41:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <33717.128.135.52.6.1470954497.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) X-Authenticated-Sender: gmx@ross.cx X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.99.2/22069/Thu Aug 11 21:22:21 2016) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 23:05:04 -0000 Am .08.2016, 00:28 Uhr, schrieb Valeri Galtsev : > Dear Experts, > > Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command line > on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot image of webpage? ports/lang/phantomjs. Can do PNG, GIF, JPG and PDF. Regards, Michael > > We have a signage (xibo) and whoever creates/changes content, likes to > add > URLs of some webpages there. All works well if these are webpages on our > servers (which are pretty fast), but some external servers often take > time > to respond and take time to assemble the page, in addition these servers > sometimes get really busy, and when response is longer than time devoted > for that content in signage window, this window hangs forever with blank > white field until you restart client. Trivial workaround: just to get > snapshot image (as, say daily cron job), and point signage client to that > snapshot definitely will solve it, and simultaneously we will stop > bugging > other people servers often without much need for it. I amd trying to > avoid > mirroring that URL content, hence I decided not to use wget or curl. > > But when I tried to search for some utility or script that makes webpage > snapshot, I discovered that my ability to search degraded somehow... > > Thanks for all your pointers! > > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"