Cutycapt, a command line tool that renders websites via WebKit

cutycapt.sourceforge.net

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The most recent build and project update was in 2013. You might have better luck with a solution based on http://phantomjs.org/ or http://electron.atom.io/ or http://wkhtmltopdf.org/.

Looks interesting, but out of curiosity, what benefit does this offer over wkhtmltopdf (http://wkhtmltopdf.org/), which does pretty much the same thing?

It generates screenshots with smaller file size and has an option to add delay before taking screenshots. I used it for a side project[1], but it would randomly die with segfault.

[1] http://screenshotapp.net

wkhtmltoimage generates screenshots as well. The filesize should depend on chosen resolution and image quality. Of course if you want something more sophisticated than jpeg you can always convert the output with a third party program.

With regards to delays, I think the --javascript-delay option does the same thing.

You're right about the delay option, I use it myself.

Sindre Sorhus' pageres (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres-cli) is a more recent alternative. It can even capture multiple resolutions AND multiple urls at once.

I feel projects like this should say e.g. "…via QtWebKit", since "WebKit" is more of a family of web engines. It's even more important in the case of QtWebKit since it's not being updated.

Does not seem to be updated. Uses an old QT build to do its thing. Better options in the market now including Phantom and Nightmare

Links since these are some really spooky and generic names:

* http://www.nightmarejs.org/ * http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

Interesting how it can be dated based on the examples. Digg, CSS Zen Garden, and Silverlight.

Or the fact that it's hosted on SourceForge in 2017

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