Website screenshot using php script

PHP
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Hi All,

I would like to take the screenshot of the website page using a php script. What I’m expecting is a command where I can provide the URL, and it will create a screenshot in png or jpg format.

f.e php takescreenshot.php <url> <output_file> .

If anyone knows please help me.

Thanks in advance

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http://php.net/manual/en/function.imagegrabscreen.php

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Hi adolek17,

Thank you for your reply.

Is there any other way to take the screen shot using php in Linux ?

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I think you can do it with Imagemagick but you need an x-server whatever that is.

There is a post on the Imagemagick forum and there may be others around.

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I think it means you need a server with a windowing environment (so not just command line). You need a server somewhere that actually runs the site in a web browser so that an image can be saved and you can then grab the image.

I did this exact same thing about 4 years ago, and that’s pretty much the process we had to go through.

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I think it means you need a server with a windowing environment (so not just command line).

You could be correct as there is a way of doing it in windows which opens a browser window; which I mentioned in the link in my post.

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You can do it with wkhtmltoimage which is a command line application that uses the webkit engine