siteshot

Website screenshot capturer written in Go and designed to run without an X session (thanks to Xvfb).

Dependencies

• Python
• ImageMagick
• webkit2png
• Xvfb

Usage

Send a POST request with a url field to the server. Any other request returns 400 Bad Request.

curl --data "url=https://html.house/xpeoccu2.html" http://localhost:3333

Installation

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 with Python 2.7 / pip 1.5.4.

TL;DR sudo apt-get install xvfb imagemagick python-qt4 libqt4-webkit && pip install git+https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png.git && go get github.com/writeas/siteshot

1. Get ImageMagick: sudo apt-get install imagemagick
2. Get Xvfb: sudo apt-get install xvfb
3. Get webkit2png dependencies: sudo apt-get install python-qt4 libqt4-webkit
4. Get webkit2png: pip install git+https://github.com/adamn/python-webkit2png.git (from a GitHub comment)
5. Get siteshot: go get github.com/writeas/siteshot