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Show HN: simple web utility for converting html to image

22 pointsby kimuraover 12 years ago

13 comments

sdoeringover 12 years ago
Well, nice, really nice idea. Tried it and was frustrated by the poor quality, of the screenshot it produced. Grainy and blurred fonts, nothing I would wanna use.<p>And the software had obvious problems parsing my css-styles. Some headlines were way of...<p>Hope you might be able to fix these issues. If not, you are (at least in my case) not usable...
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javanover 12 years ago
I made a similar thing with phantomjs and node: <a href="http://node-urlshot.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://node-urlshot.herokuapp.com/</a>
jondotover 12 years ago
Should be easy enough doing with phantom.js <a href="http://skookum.com/blog/dynamic-screenshots-on-the-server-with-phantomjs/" rel="nofollow">http://skookum.com/blog/dynamic-screenshots-on-the-server-wi...</a>
lukeholderover 12 years ago
This is nice, but I find webkit2png <a href="http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/</a> (brew install webkit2png) a more simple and flexible way to quickly generate images (and thumbnails) of webpages.<p>This is nice, that it hosts them for you immediately, although dropbox live links are pretty easy.<p>Inception: <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103062/webkit2png.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/103062/webkit2png.png</a>
cabirumover 12 years ago
pici.picidae.net - <a href="http://pici.picidae.net/CACHE/dec45eca572ebdea3a554c5827d33d53.png" rel="nofollow">http://pici.picidae.net/CACHE/dec45eca572ebdea3a554c5827d33d...</a><p>html2image - <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-cl2/LXOTY9N1IMC4BJ3GZU1PCZTNLU863KHPUQ7T8.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-cl2/LXOTY9N1IMC4BJ3GZU1PCZTNL...</a>
MichaelApprovedover 12 years ago
Works well on the desktop but I couldn't get it to work on my iPhone and the UI was completely broken when I tried to load the page.
ppadronover 12 years ago
If you need to host your own screenshot/html2png app, I've built this on top of PhantomJS: <a href="https://github.com/w3p/htmlshots" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/w3p/htmlshots</a>. It uses PhantomJS's builtin webserver module to serve screenshots, so you don't need to spawn a new process for each screenshot request.
mahmoudhossamover 12 years ago
I entered <a href="http://www.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tumblr.com</a> and it took around 5 seconds to come up with a result, this is because tumblr uses "endless scrolling".<p>Is this by design?
skakriover 12 years ago
As others mentioned - PhantomJS is way to go, it supports webfonts as well - <a href="http://www.grab.lv/_external/testpreview.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.grab.lv/_external/testpreview.png</a>
balakkover 12 years ago
Wow. At last, an azure-hosted site featured on HN front page.
eb0laover 12 years ago
I've always done this kind of stuff with PhantomJS; but I find this much better (no need to copy and paste code for a quick 1-minute job).
Charlesmigliover 12 years ago
Doesn't phantomjs do the thing for you?
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jwugglesover 12 years ago
haha i see waht you did there. this is the king of all craigslist posting - image based ads