browser shots wordpress plugins

Question

One of my users asked if there was a plugin to take automatically a screenshot from a submitted website url. He also asked if there was a wordpress plugin for this.

can anyone tell me if such a plugin exist for wordpress or if it's possible with php, ajax or any other language?

Answer 1

As far as i understand, you want this.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmp/

This plugin creates a website screenshot using only a website URL and save into your own wordpress media library.

After creating the image, wordpress will prompt you either to "insert into post" or "change attributes" just like after you upload an image. Renaming is available.

Answer 2

I've had trouble with this for a while, it's so hard to get an accurate high quality screenshot generated. I've just released a stable plugin for handling this, it makes the process of automatically generating website screenshots in WordPress dead simple with a simple shortcode:

[browser-shot url="http://link-to-website" width="600"]

For more info checkout the official plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browser-shots/

Answer 3

As far as I understand your question you can use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seekxl-snapr/ this plug-in will show a thumbnail of the url as the mouse over.

There are other plug-ins that uses websnapr[dot]com to create the images as well.

Answer 4

I personally don't know of any Wordpress plugins that take screenshots of a submitted website url, however there is a very nice service at http://browsershots.org/ that might be what you're looking for. Browsershots will render screenshots in almost any combination of browser and OS you could ever want.

Hope this helps.