Website screenshots

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Is there any way of taking a screenshot of a website in PHP  then saving it to a file

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you can use cutycapt    kwhtml is deprecated and show page like old browser

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This ought to be good for you   https   wkhtmltopdf org   Make sure you download the wkhtmltoimage distribution

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If you don t want to use any third party tools  I have come across to simple solution that is using Google Page Insight api   Just need to call it s api with params screenshot true   https   www googleapis com pagespeedonline v1 runPagespeed  url https   stackoverflow com  amp key  your api key  amp screenshot true   For mobile site view pass  amp strategy mobile in params   https   www googleapis com pagespeedonline v1 runPagespeed  url http   stackoverflow com  amp key  your api key  amp screenshot true amp strategy mobile   DEMO

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Yes it is  If you only need image of URL try this   lt img src  http   zenithwebtechnologies com au thumbnail php url www subway com au  gt    Pass the url as argument and you ll get the image for more details check this link http   zenithwebtechnologies com au auto-thumbnail-generation-from-url html

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You could do 2 things   Use Puppeteer  You can use the PHP Puppeteer package to spin up a browser and take a screenshot   Use an API  There are a lot of screenshot APIs  You could look at ScreenshotAPI net for example   Disclaimer I m the creator of that API

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Yes  You will need some things tho   See khtmld aemon  on  nx  See Url2Jpg for Windows but since it is dotNet app you should also chek Url2Bmp  Both are console tools that u can utilise from your web app to get the screenshot   There are also web services that offer it  Check this out for example   Edit   This link is useful to

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I m on Windows so I was able to use the imagegrabwindow function after reading the tip on here from stephan   I added in cropping  to get rid of the Browser header  scroll bars  etc   and resizing to get a final image   Here s my code   Hope that helps someone

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I set up finally using microweber screen as proposed by  boksiora  Initially when trying the mentioned link here what I got   Please download this script from here https   github com microweber screen   I m on Linux  So if you want to run it  you may adjust my step follow to your environment  Here are the step I did on my shell on DOCUMENT ROOT folder     sudo wget https   github com microweber screen archive master zip   sudo unzip master zip   sudo mv screen-master screen   sudo chmod  x screen bin phantomjs   sudo yum install fontconfig   sudo yum install freetype    cd screen   sudo curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php   sudo php composer phar update   cd      sudo chown -R apache screen   sudo chgrp -R www screen   sudo service httpd restart   Point your browser to screen demo shot php url google com  When you see the screenshot  you are done  Discussion for more advance setting is available here and here

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cutycapt saves webpages to most image formats jpg png    download it from your synaptic  it works much better than wkhtmltopdf

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You can use https   grabz it solution    It s got a PHP API which is very flexible and can be called in different ways such as from a cronjob or a PHP web page    In order to implement it you will need to first get an app key and secret and download the  free  SDK    And an example for implementation  First of all initialization   include  GrabzItClient class php        Create the GrabzItClient class    Replace  APPLICATION KEY    APPLICATION SECRET  with the values from your account   grabzIt   new GrabzItClient  Sign in to view your Application Key    Sign in to view your Application Secret      And screenshoting example      To take a image screenshot  grabzIt- gt URLToImage  http   www google com         Or to take a PDF screenshot  grabzIt- gt URLToPDF  http   www google com       Or to convert online videos into animated GIF s  grabzIt- gt URLToAnimation  http   www example com video avi       Or to capture table s   grabzIt- gt URLToTable  http   www google com      Next is the saving You can use one of the two save methods  Save if publicly accessible callback handle available and SaveTo if not  Check the documentation for details

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It s in Python  but going over the documentation and code you can see exactly how this is done  If you can run python  then it s a ready-made solution for you   http   browsershots org    Note that everything can run on one machine for one platform  or one machine with virtual machines running the other platforms   Free  open source  scroll to bottom of page for links to documentation  source code  and other information

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webkit2html works on Mac OS X and Linux  is quite simple to install and to use  See this tutorial   For Windows  you can go with CutyCapt  which has similar functionality

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Well  PhantomJS is a browser that can be easily put on a server and integrate it to php  You can find the code in WDudes  They have included lot more features like specifying the image size  cache  download as a file or display in img src etc     lt img src    screenshot php url google com      gt    URL Parameters   Width and Height  screenshot php url google com amp w 1000 amp h 800 With cropping  screenshot php url google com amp w 1000 amp h 800 amp clipw 800 amp cliph 600 Disable cache and load fresh screesnhot  screenshot php url google com amp cache 0 To download the image  screenshot php url google com amp download true   You can see the tutorial here  Capture Screenshot of a Website using PHP without API

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It all depends on how you wish to take the screenshot   You could do this via PHP  using a webservice to get the image for you  grabz it has a webservice to do just this  here s an article showing a simple example of using the service   http   www phpbuilder com articles news-reviews miscellaneous capture-screenshots-in-php-with-grabzit-120524022959 html

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Since PHP 5 2 2 it is possible  to capture a website with PHP solely      imagegrabscreen     Captures the whole screen    lt  php  img   imagegrabscreen    imagepng  img   screenshot png      gt       imagegrabwindow - Grabs a window or its client area using a windows handle  HWND property in COM instance      lt  php  Browser   new COM  InternetExplorer Application     Browserhandle    Browser- gt HWND   Browser- gt Visible   true   Browser- gt Fullscreen   true   Browser- gt Navigate  http   www stackoverflow com     while  Browser- gt Busy     com message pump 4000       img   imagegrabwindow  Browserhandle  0    Browser- gt Quit    imagepng  img   screenshot png      gt    Edit  Note  these functions are available on Windows systems ONLY

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LAST EDIT  after 7 years I m still getting upvotes for this answer  but I guess this one is now much more accurate     Sure you can  but you ll need to render the page with something  If you really want to only use php  I suggest you HTMLTOPS  which renders the page and outputs it in a ps file  ghostscript   then  convert it in a  jpg   png   pdf   can be little slower with complex pages  and don t support all the CSS    Else  you can use wkhtmltopdf to output a html page in pdf  jpg  whatever   Accept CSS2 0  use the webkit  safari s wrapper  to render the page   so should be fine  You have to install it on your server  as well    UPDATE Now  with new HTML5 and JS feature  is also possible to render the page into a canvas object using JavaScript  Here a nice library to do that  Html2Canvas and here is an implementation by the same author to get a feedback like G   Once you have rendered the dom into the canvas  you can then send to the server via ajax and save it as a jpg   EDIT  You can use the imagemagick tool for transforming pdf to png  My version of wkhtmltopdf does not support images  E g  convert html pdf -append html png   EDIT  This small shell script gives a simple   but working usage example on linux with php5-cli and the tools mentioned above    EDIT  i noticed now that the wkhtmltopdf team is working on another project  wkhtmltoimage  that gives you the jpg directly

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There are many open source projects that can generate screenshots  For example PhantomJS  webkit2png etc  The big problem with these projects is that they are based on older browser technology and have problems rendering many sites  especially sites that use webfonts  flexbox  svg and various other additions to the HTML5 and CSS spec over the last couple of months years    I ve tried a few of the third party services  and most are based on PhantomJS  meaning they also produce poor quality screenshots  The best third party service for generating website screenshots is urlbox io  It is a paid service  although there is a free 7-day trial to test it out without committing to any paid plan   Here is a link to the documentation  and below are simple steps to get it working in PHP with composer       1   Get the urlbox screenshots composer package  on command line   composer require urlbox screenshots     2  Set up the composer package with Urlbox API credentials   urlbox   UrlboxRenderer  fromCredentials  API KEY    API SECRET        3  Set your options  all options such as full page full height screenshots  retina resolution  viewport dimensions  thumbnail width etc can be set here  See the docs for more    options  url      example com       4  Generate the Urlbox url  urlboxUrl    urlbox- gt generateUrl  options       urlboxUrl is now  https   api urlbox io v1 API KEY TOKEN png url example com      5  Now stick it in an img tag  when the image is loaded in browser  the API call to urlbox will be triggered and a nice PNG screenshot will be generated   lt img src   urlboxUrl    gt    For e g  here s a full height screenshot of this very page   https   api urlbox io v1 ca482d7e-9417-4569-90fe-80f7c5e1c781 8f1666d1f4195b1cb84ffa5f992ee18992a2b35e png url http 3A 2F 2Fstackoverflow com 2Fquestions 2F757675 2Fwebsite-screenshots-using-php 2F43652083 2343652083 amp full page true

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After a lot for surfing on web I found this   PPTRAAS   A free tool to capture screenshot by passing your URL as a parameter  They provide multiple options by simply hitting their URL    Get full page screenshot   https   pptraas com screenshot url  YOU URL HERE  Get page screenshot of specific size  https   pptraas com screenshot url  YOU URL HERE  amp size 400 400 One can even convert the page to pdf  https   pptraas com pdf url  YOU URL HERE

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I wrote a quick and dirty app the other day for doing this using Google API  Most certainly scope for improvement      It uses the latest Google API ver 5  Image size now 500px wide Supports desktop  amp  mobile view Save to a file in a specified folder Incorporate a rudimentary cache system   Find it here with a live demo and code   I did not post the code here simply because I keep on refining it and hopefully when I have time  convert it into a proper class

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You can use simple headless browser like PhantomJS to grab the page    Also you can use PhantomJS with PHP   Check out this little php script that do this  Take a look here https   github com microweber screen  And here is the API- http   screen microweber com shot php url https   stackoverflow com questions 757675 website-screenshots-using-php

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I used bluga   The api allows you to take 100 snapshots a month without paying  but sometimes it uses more than 1 credit for a single page   I just finished upgrading a drupal module  Bluga WebThumbs to drupal 7 which allows you to print a thumbnail in a template or input filter     The main advantage to using this api is that it allows you to specify browser dimensions in case you use adaptive css  so I am using it to get renderings for the mobile and tablet layout as well as the regular one   There are api clients for the following languages   PHP  Python  Ruby  Java   Net C   Perl and Bash  the shell script looks like it requires perl

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I ve found this to be the best and easiest tool around  ScreenShotMachine  It s a paid service  but you get 100 free screenshots and you can buy another 2 000 for  about   20  so it s a pretty good deal  It has a very simple usage  you just use a URL  so I wrote this little script to save a file based on it     lt  php    url   file get contents  http   api screenshotmachine com  key  mykey  amp url https   stackoverflow com amp size X        file   fopen  snapshots stack jpg    w       fwrite  file   url     fclose  file     die  saved file       gt    They have a very good documentation here  so you should definitely take a look

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There is a lot of options and they all have their pros and cons  Here is list of options ordered by implementation difficulty   Option 1  Use an API  the easiest    ApiFlash  based on chrome  EvoPDF  has an option for html  Grabzit       Pros   Execute Javascript Near perfect rendering Fast when caching options are correctly used Scale is handled by the APIs Precise timing  viewport      Most of the time they offer a free plan   Cons   Not free if you plan to use them a lot   Option 2  Use one of the many available libraries   dom-to-image wkhtmltoimage  included in the wkhtmltopdf tool  phpwkhtmltopdf       Pros   Conversion is quite fast most of the time   Cons   Bad rendering Does not execute javascript No support for recent web features  FlexBox  Advanced Selectors  Webfonts  Box Sizing  Media Queries  HTML5 tags     Sometimes not so easy to install Complicated to scale   Option 3  Use PhantomJs and maybe a wrapper library   PhantomJs php-phantomjs  php wrapper library for PhantomJs        Pros   Execute Javascript Quite fast   Cons   Bad rendering PhantomJs has been deprecated and is not maintained anymore  No support for recent web features  FlexBox  Advanced Selectors  Webfonts  Box Sizing  Media Queries  HTML5 tags     Complicated to scale Not so easy to make it work if there is images to be loaded       Option 4  Use Chrome Headless and maybe a wrapper library   Chrome Headless chrome-devtools-protocol puphpeteer       Pros   Execute Javascript Near perfect rendering   Cons   Not so easy to have exactly the wanted result regarding    page load timing proxy integration auto scrolling      Complicated to scale Quite slow and even slower if the html contains external links   Disclaimer  I m the founder of ApiFlash  I did my best to provide an honest and useful answer

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Not directly  Software such as Selenium have features like this and can be controlled by PHP but have other dependencys  such as running their java-based server on the computer with the browser you want to screenshot

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I used page2images  It is developed base on the cutycapt which is really fast and stable  If you do not want to spend too much time on the performance and configuration  you should use it  If you go to their website  you can find more details and sample PHP code

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I always use microweber screen to capture screenshot of any webpage  Here we can find a well written tutorial  This is easier and should not take more than 3 minutes to learn

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