Ask HN: Recommend a website screenshot API?

Re:Ask HN: Recommend a website screenshot API? by geekgyrl on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @10:21PM (#3483070)

Here are two options. Webkit2png (free for Mac) - http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/ Khtml2png (free for Linux) - http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/ Paid online api - http://url2png.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Recommend a website screenshot API? by blazzar on Thursday January 19, 2012 @04:41AM (#3483803)

Can recommend url2png, very good service.

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Re:Ask HN: Recommend a website screenshot API? by dangrossman on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:23AM (#3483890)

I like it too (really, thanks for the suggestion), but the pricing is way too high, by at least an order of magnitude. A single user might import 1000 bookmarks -- there's $10 right there.

Now that I've set up phantomjs (headless webkit) on a VPS per petewarden's suggestion, I can see what it costs to run a screenshot farm myself. A couple pennies per thousand images at most for bandwidth -- Linode's smallest instance can run a bunch of webkit instances in parallel just fine. I've already generated and resized almost 1000 screenshots since installing it all.

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