automatic homepage screenshot via cronjob? :)

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From: Olivier M.
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 15:01

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Would that be possible?:  
http://www.cnn.com 	-> 	cnn20030301.jpg
http://www.slashdot.org	-> 	sd20030301.jpg
http://www.symlink.ch 	-> 	symlink20030301.jpg,
using a cronjob and a command line utility (not wget or
curl!) ? 

I'd like to build a gallery of several customer homepages,
and something automatic would be great. I guess it's not possible
with Netscape or IE, but now with libraries like Gecko or KTHTML,
maybe there is a way ? Something like:

grabHomepage --size 640x480 --output plop.jpg http://www.qmail.org,
with plop.jpg = the same thing as you would see by opening the
url in a browser window.  If possible without having to run XFree
on the server...

Any hint? I looked around using google, but found nothing yet...
Thx&regards,
Olivier
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