Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:41:09 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: script to make webpage snapshot Message-ID: <op.yl1ym0f9g7njmm@workstation> In-Reply-To: <33717.128.135.52.6.1470954497.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <33717.128.135.52.6.1470954497.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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Am .08.2016, 00:28 Uhr, schrieb Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>: > 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"
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