Does anyone have a suggested tool for placing web page snapshots on the web page? 

There are plenty of ad based tools, which I would prefer to not use.  I also see that other CMS have these, so I wanted to ask the community.

What do you use to place a snapshot of a website on your webpage?

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Thanks for the heads up on the FF3 plugin, but I am looking more for a server based tool that I can use with WebGui.

Linux supports a tool called scrot, now all I need is the ability to launch the tool and retrieve the image in webgui.

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How do you imagine using scrot in a server environment. Since scrot is just a screenshot tool, it requires you to have an x server running with some browser in order to take the website image. Nobody runs X on a server af far as I know.

I have looked into getting automated thumbnails of websites a couple of years ago. At the time there was no module in cpan that does that and also searching on perlmonks yielded no useful results. The way you'd implement this would probably involve taking the gecko (or some other html render engine's) library and hook that into a perlmodule using XS.

Now if you'd have a command line tool that could take website
screenshots without the need for a running X server, it would be pretty easy getting the resulting images into webgui (thanks to its great API of course).

Martin

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Thanks Martin,  I did not realize that scrot required X to function, I just merely knew it was available.  Any other suggestions?

I looked into Selenium, but all I found was application testing or remote control, no web page thumbnails there.

Let's keep this going!

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