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- digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24http://*****.com
for all your web 2.0 needs.
buried. - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Geez, get a new joke already.
- yonbeastie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually, kinda cool. Except that certain things (stuff printed via javascript) isn't shown in the screenshots. If that gets changed, I'll probably use it consistently.
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Some scripts/activex had to be disabled to prevent someone from entering a malicious url into the system. Eventually a members system will allow more functionality to registered users.
- Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5YOU BROKED IT!
- ecksman321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I must say, now that I've shut the ***** up, I am doing much better. I've managed to wipe the fecal encrusted sides of my mouth, for a clean brilliant smile. If only more would just help themselves, the world could be a better place.
- kayakto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Screenshot is in job queue. There is a total of 1848 jobs, and 1841 ahead of you.
i will comment when i get my screenshot - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5API anyone?
- rkuchiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Something to keep in mind before submitting your own website to digg, be PREPARED for a digg effect, just in case.
You bit off more than you could chew. I'll check back later after the digg swarm dies down. :P - TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually, AJAX is being used to display the results on the screenshot spy and on the screenshot generating computers to load up new jobs.
- iamcanman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Bones ... you . .. .. havetosaveit.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ok anyone got a way to do this (*nix of course) on your own server without having to rely on a 3rd party?
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Screenshot is in job queue. There is a total of 2035 jobs, and 2034 ahead of you.
- fleischner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5For Mac users: try "Paparazzi!" -- a small freeware utility that captures full-length screenshots of webpages and can save them as PNG files.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24625 - TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2until it starts getting abused, http://www.webshotspro.com/thumb.php?url=http://www.digg.com is all of the api you need. If it has the screenshot, it will display it. Soon a members system will be in place and sites who wish to use this will need to register their url. If you are going to use this on any high traffic sites while we are still in beta, please let us know first.
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.site5.com/ appears to be his host
Looking at their shared plans (which I'm assuming this is since it says account disabled), their minimum plan has 200gb of bandwith. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he probably started using up too much of the SQL server time and they blocked him for "overusing the shared system".
From their TOS:
This usually depends on the nature of your website. While relatively straightforward sites (think basic html/xhtml content, most shopping sites, webpages, blogs, etc.) can receive tens of thousands of hits at any given time and work perfectly fine, problems can arise with more complex sites--sites with lots of images, scripts or interactivity with visitors. Tens of thousands of users each accessing a database at the same time can cause quite a strain on a server and might be too much for a shared web hosting environment.
The thing to remember is that the term "shared hosting" (which is another term for standard web hosting) means that your site will share a server with other users. This allows for plenty of usage while keeping prices low, but certain sites may not be appropriate for such an environment. - AustinGoodchild, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Account Temporarily Disabled"
Looks like it has died under the pressure of digg. - motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This is sort of off topic, but I've been using the Pearl Crescent Page Saver extension for Firefox to do my screenshots.
http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ - Matic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now this is cool. Things like this should be popping up all over the internet making our lives very easy
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's dead, Jim.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5shame the good ol' dugg mirror cant help us now
- MixedSpleens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can't mirrior a dynamic page without the pre-serverside processed source, so your SOL till the digg effect is done. (and I dont mean Satellite of Love)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wrote a simple web service (in 2 minutes - excuse the non-optimal code) that wraps the webshot.exe for use on Windows based servers (http://www.websitescreenshots.com/). You must have webshot.exe installed.
You submit a URL and it returns a link to the captured .png file stored locally on your server.
[WebMethod]
public string HTML2PNG(string URL)
{
string result = "";
string filename = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + ".png";
string destinationURL = "http://your_ip/html2png/"+filename;
string outputPath = "C:Inetpubwwwroothtml2png";
filename = outputPath+filename;
if(URL != "")
{
try
{
string cmdStr = "/url ""+URL+"" /bwidth 800 /bheight 600 /quality 65 /encoder png /out "+filename;
Process myProc;
myProc = Process.Start("C:ProgramFilesWebShotwebshotcmd.exe",cmdStr);
myProc.CloseMainWindow();
result = destinationURL;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
result = ex.ToString();
}
}
return result;
} - ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because people don't want to load 15+ images when they search? Having it be an optional thing would be nice though -- I'd enable/use it.
- ddrirc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ack -- wrong reply. Sorry.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1damn it
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The site is being moved to a dedicated server as we speak. Please bookmark this page and check back later.
- linuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/
- OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh my, its dead.
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny how your original post about the app only got 10 diggs (http://digg.com/software/Take_screenshots_of_websites_) and this one hit the main page in less than 12 hours and got over 700 diggs and rising. I suppose 'AJAX' in the title helped...
- gandubhalla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Assassinated by Digg but votes keep rising :D
- gandubhalla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Paparazzi is AWESOME
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Custom Screenshot sizes and realtime thumbnail generation are now live for members only. Check out WebShotsPro again for all the juicy new details.
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3digg mirror is not going to help this at all. not this time. the scripts depend on our domain name. Don't worry, we will be back online soon.
- mannoo2009, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1Nice Tool.
I used it to get all thumbnails of my web hosting reviews and coupons at: http://www.webhostingreviewz.com - joelgreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nothing is free forever. If you want some stability then you need to generate thumbnails on your hosting server. This will also eliminate performance issue (waiting few minutes if not hours while thumbnail is being rendered). You could try following tool to create thumbs yourself.
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/website-thumbnail-generator.php - Yusouf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will be great for web designers / developers, IF they added the option to select the browser his server uses for the screen grabs, atm its IE 6, if he added Safari it would be really useful, as for windows users we can already test firefox and opera but Safari is out of reach.
- rumford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is sweet. I can see how this application has some legs. There some really cool things that could be done with this technology.... like tagging, turning out RSS feeds, social networking... etc Great Idea Guys!
http://www.newmediagulp.com - TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In less than 90 minutes we were able to recover the site and move it to a dedicated server. EV1Servers' ordering process is amazing! The site is back online thanks to them!
- nethenm, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah, next time I will use more keywords in the title like
Apple, Firefox, AJAX, etc.. - koorlle44er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not cool enough.
Look this:
http://www.choosecn.com/budget-choose-decorating-design-have-have-home-hour-in-like-one-principle-simple-space-ten-things-transform-use-using/ - yevgenyk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been using http://www.clickpreview.net on a several pages and I like the quality of images. You can actually *read* the text on thumbnails. It;s not instantaneous - it takes some time to get a confirmation email, bu the quality of images is impressive. I don't think they suppress javascript either and it's free .. at least for now...
- thumbnailspro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Be sure to check out thumbnailspro.com, it's currently free while in beta testing, but has been up and running for about two months and already getting page 3 results in google for the keywords free website screenshots and website thumbnails! Highest quality images anywhere and allows you to resize the thumbnail from 10pixels to 1000pixels using &s=250 at the end of the request!
http://thumbnailspro.com - vincecliqk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Cool site, nice use of ajax! The bookmarklet is going to be useful when I want to include a screenshot of a website in my blog.
is there any way to make it so when you rollover a link it displays a bigger thumbnail?
It would be also be useful to have these little screenshots on a search engine page so you can see the websites your clicking on before you visit the site. Why doesn't google have this? - jyahoo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Another...
http://digg.com/programming/R_o_R_AJAX_Driven_Website_Screenshot_Creator - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great idea! Doesn't work properly though. Hope they get the bugs fixed, as it looks promising.
Meanwhille, here's a Firefox Extension http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ - TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Despite server failures we had over 12,000 unique visitors to webshotspro.com yesterday (Sept 1st). We killed 2 servers in the process, and learned a valuable lesson about database optimization. Thanks to everyone who visited, and be sure to check back soon for news about our upcoming members area.
-WebshotsPro Webmasters
http://www.webshotspro.com - DoodleFlash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice, they could do with a few more servers and a faster script though.
http://www.doodle-flash.co.uk
Screenshot is in job queue. There is a total of 1621 jobs, and 1617 ahead of you.
Aswell, i think alot of these are bots. Maybe they need some Anti-Bot script? - infobeat234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if(URL != "")
{
try
{
string cmdStr = "/url ""+URL+"" /bwidth 800 /bheight 600 /quality 65 /encoder png /out "+filename;
Process myProc;
myProc = Process.Start("C:ProgramFilesWebShotwebshotcmd.exe",cmdStr);
myProc.CloseMainWindow();
result = destinationURL;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
result = ex.ToString();
}
Haaaaaaaaaaa...........
the site is http://dnff.info/sitemap.htm - eksob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I can use this in my links directory to enhance the view...DIGG
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