Website screenshots

Question

Is there any way of taking a screenshot of a website in PHP, then saving it to a file?

Answer 1

Well, PhantomJS is a browser that can be easily put on a server and integrate it to php. You can find the code in WDudes. They have included lot more features like specifying the image size, cache, download as a file or display in img src etc.

URL Parameters

• Width and Height: screenshot.php?url=google.com&w=1000&h=800

• With cropping: screenshot.php?url=google.com&w=1000&h=800&clipw=800&cliph=600

• Disable cache and load fresh screesnhot:
  screenshot.php?url=google.com&cache=0

• To download the image: screenshot.php?url=google.com&download=true

You can see the tutorial here: Capture Screenshot of a Website using PHP without API