Website screenshots

Question

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

Answer 1

I wrote a quick and dirty app the other day for doing this using Google API. Most certainly scope for improvement...

• It uses the latest Google API ver 5.
• Image size now 500px wide
• Supports desktop & mobile view
• Save to a file in a specified folder
• Incorporate a rudimentary cache system

Find it here with a live demo and code.

I did not post the code here simply because I keep on refining it and hopefully when I have time, convert it into a proper class.