# Remote browser screen capture with Rials? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038 "2009-01-18T09:27:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/1 "2009-01-18T09:27:01Z")
Hi everyone, Does anyone know of a solution that will work with Rails that can capture remote screen shots of website a.k.a Magnolia, DZone etc? Thanks, Schalk ---
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/2 "2009-01-18T13:10:51Z")
Schalk N. wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone know of a solution that will work with Rails that can > capture remote screen shots of website a.k.a Magnolia, DZone etc? I would use Curl, Wget, Rio, or Net::HTTP to pull in the page (and its dependencies), then I would Google for “html to thumbnail”, find a shell command that works, and shell to it. A good thumbnailer will let you set the dimensions to very large, for a screen shot not a thumbnail. May I ask if you are acceptance testing that target website? ---
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/3 "2009-01-18T17:42:09Z")
Hi there Philip, Thanks for the info. These looks promising: [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby/GtkMozEmbed](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby/GtkMozEmbed) [http://mirko.lilik.it/Ruby-GNOME2/moz-snapshooter.rb](http://mirko.lilik.it/Ruby-GNOME2/moz-snapshooter.rb) Regarding acceptance testing, so you mean the websites that I want to capture or the website doing the capturing? Thanks, Schalk ---
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/4 "2009-01-18T20:08:30Z")
Schalk N. wrote: > Hi there Philip, > > Thanks for the info. These looks promising: > [http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby/GtkMozEmbed](http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Ruby/GtkMozEmbed) > [http://mirko.lilik.it/Ruby-GNOME2/moz-snapshooter.rb](http://mirko.lilik.it/Ruby-GNOME2/moz-snapshooter.rb) Does Moz imply they invoke the Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox web browser? Ain’t that too heavy? ---
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/5 "2009-01-19T14:19:44Z")
Schalk, The guys from [Pagestacker.com](http://Pagestacker.com) did just that. Talk to them, they are very friendly… Cheers, Sazima ---
**Author:** ![Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Schalk\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Schalk_N)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/remote-browser-screen-capture-with-rials/158038/6 "2009-01-18T22:06:46Z")
Hi Philip, I am guessing it must be the mozilla engine. I saw another one that uses webkit but it seems that the server needs to run the Mac OS. Regards, Schalk