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Cain Nuke
Cain Nuke

Reputation: 3093

Fastest method to get the screenshot image of an external webpage

Hi,

I want to get the screenshot of several pages and display them on my website. As of now, I am using the method below:

<?php

$site = $screenurl;

$image = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?url=$site&screenshot=true");
$image = json_decode($image, true); 
$image = $image['screenshot']['data'];
$image = str_replace(array('_','-'),array('/','+'),$image); 

echo "<img src=\"data:image/jpeg;base64,".$image."\" alt=\"\">";
?>

but with 10 or more images per page, this method takes FOREVER to load them all or it wont even load them at all because it times out. I would like to know a more effective, optimized and faster way to do this.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 400

Answers (1)

robere2
robere2

Reputation: 1716

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but PHP's built-in (PHP >= 5.2.2) imagegrabscreen function is capable of returning an image resource containing a screenshot of the whole screen. It is sort of picky, though, from what I understand (never used it myself), requiring it to be run on a Windows system and "allow Apache service to interact with the desktop". These documentation pages could be helpful:

imagegrabscreen Function
imagegrabwindow Function

Upvotes: 1

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