For an upcoming project, we’re developing an application that automatically takes a snapshot of a Web page and produces a variety of thumbnail-sized images. This application was developed using Firefox on Linux along with some C programming and a little bit of Ruby on Rails development. Please try out this prototype: grab any site you like. Let us know how it works.
Try the Site Screen Shot v.01
(Update August 6, 2007: We’ve taken web page image capture prototype down permanently. The RSS Mixer prototype is still available and there are no plans to take it down.)
This is a neat service, is it possible to grab the images from your site using an API of sorts or would I have to use your service, save the image, and then upload it to my site?
For the moment we see this simply as one element for a larger project–not a service in its own right. Thanks for your interest though, we’ll certainly let you know if we decide something differently in the future.
The prototype is down this weekend. We moving some things around. It should be back on Monday.
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