Script browser behavior on the command line (linux)

Question

I need to automate screenshots of a website. The screenshot needs to contain the browser window itself and the full web page (scrolled in multiple screenshots if necessary).

To do this I am opening a virtual display with vncserver, starting a browser in it, and taking screenshots with ImageMagicks "import".

Now I have a few problems:

• I don't know when the page has finished loading. Right now I'm just waiting a certain amount of time, which isn't a great solution.
• I can't open the next page in the same tab, so I have to restart the browser.
• I don't know how long the page really is and can't scroll the browser.

All this seems to be possible with iMacros, but it's not-quite-so-cheap payware and I can't find any other solution.

Does anyone know of a way to control any browser through command line options in Linux solving the above problems? Preferably a low-cost solution. :)

Answer 1

webkit2png will render screenshots of any page, on OS X

Maybe xvfb would also work? (a webpage can be insanely long, I wouldn't jump head first for this solution)

Also Chromeless from Mozilla-Labs