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https://github.com/writeas/siteshot

Website screenshot capturer written in Go.
https://github.com/writeas/siteshot

imagemagick web-app webkit2png website-screenshot-capturer xvfb

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Website screenshot capturer written in Go.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/writeas/siteshot
Owner: writeas
License: agpl-3.0
Created: 2016-01-02T08:56:05.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2019-02-21T18:37:52.000Z (over 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-08-01T12:23:42.643Z (3 months ago)
Topics: imagemagick, web-app, webkit2png, website-screenshot-capturer, xvfb
Language: Go
Size: 65.4 KB
Stars: 18
Watchers: 3
Forks: 1
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        siteshot

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![AGPL license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/writeas/siteshot.svg)

Website screenshot capturer written in Go and designed to run without an X session (thanks to [Xvfb](http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml)).

## Dependencies

* Python

* [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/)

* [webkit2png](https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png)

* [Xvfb](http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml)

## Usage

Send a POST request with a `url` field to the server. Any other request returns `400 Bad Request`.

`curl --data "url=https://html.house/xpeoccu2.html" http://localhost:3333`

## Installation

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 with Python 2.7 / pip 1.5.4.

**TL;DR** `sudo apt-get install xvfb imagemagick python-qt4 libqt4-webkit && pip install git+https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png.git && go get github.com/writeas/siteshot`

1. Get ImageMagick: `sudo apt-get install imagemagick`

2. Get Xvfb: `sudo apt-get install xvfb`

3. Get webkit2png dependencies: `sudo apt-get install python-qt4 libqt4-webkit`

4. Get webkit2png: `pip install git+https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png.git` (from a [GitHub comment](https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png/issues/55#issuecomment-150974776))

5. Get siteshot: `go get github.com/writeas/siteshot`