Print Screen

[coutancineau]

Hi,
is there a way to make a printscreen from a webpage.

We are making a study on birds and need to save radar images every hour. That page is changing every 15 minutes and we cannot just save the page to a file.

What we need is an image from the page to be saved on our computer. I thought making a webpage with a script that would save the screen, but I dont know how to do it.

Thanks for any help

[Twey]

Is this your webpage or someone else's? Can you modify it? What software is the server using? Will anyone other than you need to access this page?

[BLiZZaRD]

Doing that without having to click a button is tough. HOWEVER!

There is a program that does such a thing. You can download it here:

Time captrue software

They also have other software and in packages, including AVI-video capturing!

Most of these are shareware, so if you don't want to pay, or are using it only for a limited time, you may get away with it. But if this is long term then buying one of the packages might just be your thing.

View Packages and Prices

I found this with a quick Google search, there may be open source/freeware ones also... but don't count on it... finding an automatic screen capture program was already tough! LOL

[simonf]

Hi... you could try a tool called PrintKey2000 which is a free download.... it's a great little tool with a lot of features etc.. enjoy

[coutancineau]

I have done a webpage in a frame on my computer which updates itself every 15 minutes. Now I want to save that page every hour, 24/24 for about 14 weeks in spring and in autumn for a scientific bird study.

Of course I dont have a budget for buying any software. This is why I need to get a free script to save this webpage every hour.

Yes, the page is on my own computer and I will be the only one to visit that page. But if I put it on my server anyone could visit the page.

Thanks
Guy

[Twey]

A script that has recently been brought to my attention, html2jpg, as part of a script (or, preferably, as a cron job) will do what you want. It requires a UNIX-based operating system running X11, with Mozilla installed.

[coutancineau]

my computer runs on w2000

[Twey]

Hmm. You could try Cygwin.
Why is it that saving a copy of the page to hard drive won't suffice?

[coutancineau]

Twey, that's all what I need, a copy of the page on my computor every hour. But every hour, the script has to save the page with a different filename.

[Twey]

Is it just this dynamically-generated image you need, or the whole page? And this image, it's always at the same URL?