Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Making urls look memorable

Bluga.net WebThumb provides a white-label web service API for generating web thumbnails and full size snapshots of websites.
WebThumb offers more features and quicker response times then any other service.
  • Real-time thumbnails
  • Flash 10 Support
  • PDF Support
  • Quick response times
  • REST API
  • API clients for PHPRubyPython
  • Cache the thumbnails on your server or Webthumbs
  • Browser windows from 75x75 to 1280x2048
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3621
http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726660/how-do-i-make-beautiful-screenshots-of-web-pages-using-ruby-and-a-unix-server
rbwebkitgtkhttp://github.com/danlucraft/rbwebkitgtk/tree/master

Moz snap shooterhttp://www.lilik.it/~mirko/Ruby-GNOME2/moz-snapshooter.rb
http://www.hackdiary.com/2004/06/13/taking-automated-webpage-screenshots-with-embedded-mozilla/

Selenium RC has a Ruby interface and can grab a screenshot using: http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-remote-control/1.0-beta-2/doc/ruby/classes/Selenium/Client/GeneratedDriver.html#M000220

PageGlimpse is a service providing developers with programatic access to thumbnails of any web page. The thumbnails can be virtually used in any kind of applications that require the display of website screenshots: web sites, windows/linux/mac applications, iPhone/mobile utilities, browser plugins, etc. 
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