Web page thumbnails

Hi all, Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low cost solution). Thanks Steve

Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I wasn?t aware that Rick's image.cfc could grab a screenshot of a remote site and create an image out of it... is that true Rick? .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I don't think it does. I read this at a glance and thought it said "generate thumbnails for webpages" when it says "of webpages". Bobby Hartsfield wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Project:    ImageCFC Home page:   http://www.opensourcecf.com/imagecfc Author:   Rick Root License:   BSD Platform:   CFMX 6.1+, Bluedragon 6.2+ Description:   Description: ImageCFC is an image manipulation component which allows you to resize, rotate, flip, and crop images. It also allows you to add text using TrueType fonts to your images, and control JPEG compression quality. It can read gif, jpg, and png images, either from the local file system or via a URL. It can write JPG and PNG images. GIF images can be manipulated but they cannot be saved as GIF images, they must be saved as PNG images. Doesn?t appear that it does that Jake. .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com I wasn?t aware that Rick's image.cfc could grab a screenshot of a remote site and create an image out of it... is that true Rick? ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

He's not talking about making thumbnails of an image that's already created. He wants to make thumbnails of live web pages, like Ask.com does. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Yes. Like Ask.com does.  Sorry I wasn't more clear. He's not talking about making thumbnails of an image that's already created. He wants to make thumbnails of live web pages, like Ask.com does. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from > ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is working ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

>Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from >ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is working >on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low cost solution). > I am assuming that you mean pulling in a web page from the internet, and then making a thumbnail of the result.  Perhaps printing the webpage to pdf using cfdocument, and then using something like ImageMagick to convert that to a jpg thumbnail (I'm not sure if any of the other image processing tags/cfcs will do pdf-jpg, but I'm fairly sure that ImageMagick does).

I wonder what ask.com would think about someone 'borrowing' their screenshots? .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Hi all, Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low cost solution). Thanks Steve

> I wonder what ask.com would think about someone 'borrowing' their IIRC there is a Firefox extension to add them to Google results. They don't seem to mind that. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to apprehensively extend high-yield supply-chains **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

> Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web > pages from ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal > project he is working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking > for a no/low cost solution). Colleague passed me this link for javascript version of what I think you are looking for. It's not what you want exactly but if you disect the Javascript it is getting the thumbnails of the websites from an external service (an MSN one if memory serves me correctly) you may get some ideas from it. http://lab.arc90.com/2006/07/link_thumbnail.php The example page is here http://lab.arc90.com/tools/linkthumb/

What about CFHTTP and CFDOCUMENT? Not quite an image, but you may be able to convert the PDF to an image. M!ke He's not talking about making thumbnails of an image that's already created. He wants to make thumbnails of live web pages, like Ask.com does. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from > ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is > working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low cost solution). > > Thanks > Steve

Then the question would be how to convert the pdf to an image. What about CFHTTP and CFDOCUMENT? Not quite an image, but you may be able to convert the PDF to an image. M!ke He's not talking about making thumbnails of an image that's already created. He wants to make thumbnails of live web pages, like Ask.com does. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> Rick Root's image.cfc.  Google that and you'll find a .cfc file with everything you need DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages from > ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project he is > working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low cost solution). > > Thanks > Steve

Amazon.com has an inexpensive (I think) web service that will do this. I don't know if the web page has to already be in their library or if it is dynamic. http://Aws.amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/102-0823466-619213 0?ie=UTF8&node=3435361&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA -Nate ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

http://efflare.com/docs/CFX_ImageCR3/reference/examples/index.html#Website%2 0Screenshot MAN!! WHAT WON'T IT DO!!?? .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Amazon.com has an inexpensive (I think) web service that will do this. I don't know if the web page has to already be in their library or if it is dynamic. http://Aws.amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/102-0823466-619213 0?ie=UTF8&node=3435361&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA -Nate ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Note that cfx_url2bmp is free ;-) .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://efflare.com/docs/CFX_ImageCR3/reference/examples/index.html#Website%2 0Screenshot MAN!! WHAT WON'T IT DO!!?? ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Amazon.com has an inexpensive (I think) web service that will do this. I don't know if the web page has to already be in their library or if it is dynamic. http://Aws.amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/102-0823466-619213 0?ie=UTF8&node=3435361&no=3435361&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA -Nate ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

> Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web > pages from ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal > project he is working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking > for a no/low cost solution). Think Bobby mentioned ImageCR earlier - and I remember seeing this in the docs: http://efflare.com/docs/CFX_ImageCR3/reference/examples/index.html#Websi te%20Screenshot Jim

http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxwebthumb.cfm

>http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxwebthumb.cfm Wind'dohs only unfortunately

> Can anyone tell me of a way to generate thumbnails of web pages > from ColdFusion?  A co-worker is asking for a personal project > he is working on (so I'm guessing that he is looking for a no/low > cost solution). If you're on Windows this is a nitfy command line util that could be run from <cfexecute>: http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ Tim. -- ------------------------------------------------------- TB: http://tim.bla.ir/  Tech: http://tech.badpen.com/ -------------------------------------------------------      RAWNET LTD - independent digital media agency      "We are big, we are funny and we are clever!"                 http://www.rawnet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This message may  contain information which  is legally privileged  and/or  confidential.  If  you are  not the intended  recipient, you  are hereby notified  that any unauthorised  disclosure, copying,  distribution or use of  this  information   is  strictly  prohibited.  Such notification  notwithstanding,  any comments, opinions, information  or conclusions  expressed in  this message are those of  the originator,  not of  rawnet  limited, unless otherwise explicitly and independently indicated by  an  authorised  representative  of  rawnet limited. -------------------------------------------------------

> If you're on Windows this is a nitfy command line util that could be run > from <cfexecute>: > > http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ > > Tim. Great Find Tim!!! -- Casey Dougall Web Applications Developer Ph: 518 743-9424  Fax: 743-0337 Mannix Marketing Inc. 33 Park St. Third Floor, Glens Falls, New York 12801 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wWw.TerrainAssassin.cOm - Nov1 2006

Holy cow, that IS a cool little utility. I have never seen it before. If any one is interested, I have set up a little demo to see it in action: http://www.bennadel.com/resources/demo/3/ Tim, thanks a lot for posting! ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ > If you're on Windows this is a nitfy command line util that could be > run from <cfexecute>: > > http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ > > Tim. Great Find Tim!!! -- Casey Dougall Web Applications Developer Ph: 518 743-9424  Fax: 743-0337 Mannix Marketing Inc. 33 Park St. Third Floor, Glens Falls, New York 12801 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wWw.TerrainAssassin.cOm - Nov1 2006

----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Sweet, thanks Ben, just goes to show you, read cf-talk enough and you don't have to code anymore LOL.

Ha ha, no worries. I love me some good code :) ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Sweet, thanks Ben, just goes to show you, read cf-talk enough and you don't have to code anymore LOL.

Yes... very, very nice indeed. .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com Holy cow, that IS a cool little utility. I have never seen it before. If any one is interested, I have set up a little demo to see it in action: http://www.bennadel.com/resources/demo/3/ Tim, thanks a lot for posting! ....................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ > If you're on Windows this is a nitfy command line util that could be > run from <cfexecute>: > > http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ > > Tim. Great Find Tim!!! -- Casey Dougall Web Applications Developer Ph: 518 743-9424  Fax: 743-0337 Mannix Marketing Inc. 33 Park St. Third Floor, Glens Falls, New York 12801 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wWw.TerrainAssassin.cOm - Nov1 2006

Try to generate a thumbnail from  www.excite.com ....

That is weird.  I guess for freeware, it's still very good. Besides... Look at excite.. It's a mess :) -b ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ Try to generate a thumbnail from  www.excite.com ....

Hmmm, pretty. Also, from the cfmail timeout error, I see Ben is mailing himself every time someone uses his demo to see what's going on.  Tricky....  :) ~Brad Try to generate a thumbnail from  www.excite.com ....

It's actually a site-wide error mailer... It must be crashing :( ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ Hmmm, pretty. Also, from the cfmail timeout error, I see Ben is mailing himself every time someone uses his demo to see what's going on.  Tricky....  :) ~Brad Try to generate a thumbnail from  www.excite.com ....

Actually, that is very interesting... It looks like the CFExecute was timing the page out... Which must have thrown an error... But then the error handler timed out also? Is that possible? Does OnError of the Application.cfc live in the same request time out constraints? ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ Hmmm, pretty. Also, from the cfmail timeout error, I see Ben is mailing himself every time someone uses his demo to see what's going on.  Tricky....  :) ~Brad Try to generate a thumbnail from  www.excite.com ....

Also, thumbnails look VERY different from the big picture.  See Microsoft page, as an example.  Usual place for some free cheese is a mousetrap... >That is weird.  I guess for freeware, it's still very good. Besides... Look >at excite.. It's a mess :)

I wonder what type of browser the tag reports itself as, and how it generates the page.  I'm guessing the pages with a lot of DHTML and dynamic client-side shmoo are the ones most likely to not render correctly.   ~Brad Also, thumbnails look VERY different from the big picture.  See Microsoft page, as an example.  Usual place for some free cheese is a mousetrap... >That is weird.  I guess for freeware, it's still very good. Besides... Look >at excite.. It's a mess :)

On the developer's website, it says that it uses the IE browser to take the screen shot. As far as the small image looking different than the large one, that's probably just my settings. You can set the browser size as well as the image size. I am probably only setting the image size for the small thumb. Remember, this was just a little demo. I only discovered this app today, so the demo is not refined. I still think it's a cool little app, especially since it doesn't need to be "installed" which means no permissions issues (unless you have CFExecue permissions issues). -b ...................... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Need Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ I wonder what type of browser the tag reports itself as, and how it generates the page.  I'm guessing the pages with a lot of DHTML and dynamic client-side shmoo are the ones most likely to not render correctly.   ~Brad Also, thumbnails look VERY different from the big picture.  See Microsoft page, as an example.  Usual place for some free cheese is a mousetrap... >That is weird.  I guess for freeware, it's still very good. Besides... Look >at excite.. It's a mess :)