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Ask HN: Possible to take automatic screenshot of webpage at same time each day?

7 pointsbengalu8 comments

Need to get a screen shot of a web page at the same time every day to track some stats for my company. Unfortunately I'm asleep at that point every day. Any way to automate this? Looking for a solution for Mac OS.

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http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

https://github.com/coderholic/PyWebShot

It'd be dead easy with PhantomJS. A script to do it would look something like:

---

    p = new WebPage()

    p.open "http://example.com/whatever", (status) ->
        console.log "☆　LOAD STATUS: #{status}"
        p.render "/Users/Shared/screenshot.png"

---

If you want to get fancy, you can code your script to render only a subregion of the page. Phantom can automate pretty much anything you can do yourself with a browser.

http://www.phantomjs.org

Not quite a snapshot but diphur.com checks each hour 24/7 for changes and presents you with what only changed.

Selenium is another option http://seleniumhq.org/

if you can't find it and you need it. ...MAKE it! ,or pay some one to make it and monetize it. anyway the links given should be good.

check out url2png

Nice, checked these guys out and looks great. You know they're legit since they give you some alternatives if their pricing plans isn't to your taste.

http://url2png.com/alternatives/

would love this!

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