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Is it possible to "hook" a web page image in PHP?

What I mean is to get the rendered HTML and make a Jpeg / GIF from it. The idea is to take a digital snapshot of the page.

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How about HTML to PDF? There are many libraries available. And PDF, in turn, can be converted to Image?



Can this be done correctly? Or am I away?

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This will likely require much more effort than it is worth. Why not take a look at the services that already provide this for you? (Like Alexa)



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You cannot do this in PHP alone; but with PHP you can start a browser by telling it to load the url you want and then get a "screenshot" from that browser.

I've heard a couple of times Firefox could do this - there should be some questions + answers here on SO to get you started; here are a few of them:

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