How can I generate a screenshot of a webpage using a server-side script?

Question

I need a server-side script (PHP, Python) to capture a webpage to a PNG, JPG, Tiff, GIF image and resize them to a thumbnail.

What is the best way to accomplish this?

See also:

• Web Page Screenshots with PHP?
• How can I take a screenshot of a website with PHP and GD?
• How might I obtain a Snapshot or Thumbnail of a web page using PHP?

Answer 1

You can probably write something similar to webkit2png, unless your server already runs Mac OS X.

UPDATE: I just saw the link to its Linux equivalent: khtml2png

See also:

• Create screenshots of a web page using Python and QtWebKit
• Taking automated webpage screenshots with embedded Mozilla