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Is there any way of dynamically making thumbshots of websites using MX 7?

I would check out Image.cfc http://www.opensourcecf.com/imagecfc/ It is a great product > > Is there any way of dynamically making thumbshots of websites using MX 7?

I think the question is how would one capture a sites screenshot dynamically...the image manipulation is the easy part. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- 7?

Image.cfc cannot do that. It's been asked before. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> I think the question is how would one capture a sites screenshot dynamically...the image manipulation is the easy part. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- 7? > > > > > >

The easiest would probably to use http://www.thumbshots.org/ or similar service as they already have them. To make your own...  Maybe a combo of cfhttp and some other component to take the src to a jpg?  Is Scopio going to allow cfdocument to save as jpg? I think BD 7 will or was that ralio? Joshua Cyr Savvy Software 866.870.6358 www.besavvy.com I think the question is how would one capture a sites screenshot dynamically...the image manipulation is the easy part. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- 7? > > > > > >

+1 http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ Works like a champ!!! Runs every 1.5 minutes adding client business website images to our database. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Too bad there's no Linux version. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> +1 http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ Works like a champ!!! Runs every 1.5 minutes adding client business website images to our database. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Josh, how would you go from http'ed html code to rendered site?  It has to pass through a web server... Not being a wisea$$ here, I truly am wondering how to do it, since this question was posed to me a few months ago, and I have been stalling to answer it.  :) I like that exe that Snake linked to.  I'm pretty sure cfexecute is disabled on our shared servers, so it would only work via our dedicated sites. Bummer. > Importance: High > > The easiest would probably to use http://www.thumbshots.org/ or similar > service as they already have them. > > To make your own...  Maybe a combo of cfhttp and some other component to > take the src to a jpg?  Is Scopio going to allow cfdocument to save as jpg? ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

cool app snake ;) ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Well, I was thinking CFDocument at first, but CFMX doesn't save as image yet.  Seems ralio does as well as BD 7 (beta).  So maybe Sorpio may?  It would be nice if you can leverage some Java for it, but not likely to be supported on shared host either. I think I would also consider not using CF at all.  Get a list of URL's and have an outside program run against them on some sort of schedule.  Either on the server or outside box then upload them periodically. Maybe something like this one which seems to be able to do both. http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm Joshua Cyr Savvy Software 866.870.6358 www.besavvy.com Josh, how would you go from http'ed html code to rendered site?  It has to pass through a web server... Not being a wisea$$ here, I truly am wondering how to do it, since this question was posed to me a few months ago, and I have been stalling to answer it.  :) I like that exe that Snake linked to.  I'm pretty sure cfexecute is disabled on our shared servers, so it would only work via our dedicated sites. Bummer. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- jpg? ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Railo will do that in Version 1.1... Greetings / Grüsse Gert Franz Customer Care Railo Technologies GmbH gert.franz@railo.ch www.railo.ch Join our Mailing List / Treten Sie unserer Mailingliste bei: deutsch: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/railo/ english: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/ Joshua Cyr schrieb: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Joshua Cyr wrote: > I think BD 7 will or was that ralio? BD 7 will...here is a test page I just whipped up... http://www.wrightster.com/webthumb.cfm The resizing is done with Rick's image.cfc, and if you click on the thumbnail, you will see the original jpg created by cfdocument. Seems to have trouble with sites with a lot of JS, but I would assume that many of these screen capture methods would. This is BD7 JX Beta 2 Running on CentOS 3.  Note that the free version of BD is not going to support cfdocument at all.

http://www.websitescreenshots.com/ You could use this via cfexecute. Russ Is there any way of dynamically making thumbshots of websites using MX 7?

Hi Guys This is pretty cool: http://www.snap.com/about/spa1A.php all you do is add some javascript to your code and voila whatever the link is it brings back a mini screenshot of the relevant website. Jose Diaz ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

But it only works for some sites I believe. If it's the one I remember, it ties in to Ask.com's screenshot library which doesn't include every site. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. andy@icglink.com 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> Hi Guys This is pretty cool: http://www.snap.com/about/spa1A.php all you do is add some javascript to your code and voila whatever the link is it brings back a mini screenshot of the relevant website. Jose Diaz ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

cfx_url2bmp from efflare creates an uncompressed bmp which can then be converted to a thumbnail: http://efflare.com/download/ Is there any way of dynamically making thumbshots of websites using MX 7?

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

Thanks everyone. Some very handy info.