Script driving konqueror to generate web images

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann]

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to somehow drive Konqueror with a script to a website and
> then save the rendered page as an image?

> Here's a more detailed description of what I want to do :
> 
> I want to create a small website that will let people enter the URL of
> some website. A php/perl/bash etc. script (or C/C++ program) should then
> use konqueror (or maybe just khtml) to fetch the page, grab the rendered
> page as
> an image, save the image  (possibly manipulate the image with imagemagick
> or similar) and then add that image to an archive of webpage screenshots.
> 
> To control how the page is rendered I will ofcourse also need to be able
> to tell Konqueror how big the display area is and various other parameters
> that affect the rendering, that would be set when Konqueror is launchd as
> a normal app.
> 
> Can this be done?  and if so, can someone guide me in the right direction
> of where I can find some documentation on how to do this?

Check out kwebdesktop, it already does what you want, I guess.

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