HowTo: Thumbnail A Website From Linux Command Terminal

Blogging from Wordpress platform enables a blogger to incorporate and activate snapshot plugin where a blogger create on-demand URL snap shots of their websites.

If you are looking for HTML site thumbnailer software available from Linux command lin, read on.

Here's how to create a thumbnail images of URL sites from linux terminal.

Gnome Web Photo contains a thumbnailer that will be used by GNOME applications, including the file manager, to generate screenshots of web pages.

Gnome-Web-Photo Thumbnailer Fedora Installation

To generate thumbnail images using gnome-web-photo
# yum -y install gnome-web-photo

Sample Usage:

Creating thumbnails image of a website or URL site.
# gnome-web-photo -t 0 --mode=thumbnail -w 1152 -s 128 http://www.yahoo.com yahoo.jpg
# gnome-web-photo -t 0 --mode=thumbnail -w 1152 -s 256 http://www.yahoo.com yahoo2.jpg
# gnome-web-photo -t 0 --mode=thumbnail -w 512 -s 256 http://www.google.com google.jpg

After a while, try to view the thumbnail images
# gthumb google.jpg
# gview yahoo.jpg

Gnome-web-photo also supports create snapshot in photo mode which creates a wider and larger version of URL site in photo mode. This feature can also be applied to actual image files from your hard drive, giving you an alternative way to scale down your photo images like so

# gnome-web-photo -w 64 --files /should/have/full/path/food.jpg thumb.jpg

Creating thumbnails images of URL in photo mode for larger image and better quality thumbnail pictures
# gnome-web-photo -t 0 --mode=photo -w 1152 http://www.yahoo.com yehey.jpg ; gthumb yehey.jpg

Sample Created Thumbnail URL Images


That is all, enjoy.

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