wksnap

Takes snapshots of websites or local pages with WebKit and save them as PNG files

Building and using wksnap.

Building wksnap

• Install WebKit2GTK+ development headers:

sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

• Build it as follows:

gcc -o wksnap wksnap.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs webkit2gtk-4.0)
# Or run the build.sh script

• Now copy the binary to /usr/local/bin (for example)

Using wksnap

The usage is pretty straightforward:

wksnap [website-uri|file] path-to-destination.png

Using wksnap headless

You can use xvfb-run for running it headless

• Install xvfb

apt-get install xvfb

• Run wksnap with it:

xvfb-run wksnap uri file

TODO

List of things I would like to add

• Add support for saving the webpages in more formats than PNG (PDF?)
• Automatically wrap wksnap with xvfb-run without asking the user to do it.
• Make configurable the default size of the snapshoots
• Detect when a website couldn't load and return something better than an empty image.