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    I'm putting together my own little inspiration gallery comprised of hundreds of sites I've bookmarked with del.icio.us. So far I've created a page which uses SimplePie to import feeds for my various categories ("clean", "wickedworn", "corporate", etc), and I've set up Snap Preview Anywhere which triggers screenshot previews when rolling over the links. Ideally, though, the gallery would be much more usable if the screenshots were visible on the page next to each link, without any interaction required. Does anyone know of another web service which can take screenshots and insert them? I've noticed the homepage of delicious does something similar.
    • CommentAuthorMatt
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2007
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    It is possible, I created a page to do that, but it would be waaaay to much of a bandwidth hog to release the URL. If you have access to the server, full root access you can do it. Take a look at the URL for the thumbs on http://www.webshotspro.com/ for the sites. You might want to just go through their site.
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    I'll be damned, it actually worked:

    http://www.darrenhoyt.com/inspiration/

    Just needed some PHP to pull in the URLs and images from Snap and del.icio.us, and parse it all with SimplePie.
    • CommentAuthorMatt
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007
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    Scraping content is fun.. one of my first projects I did for fun was redo movie listings on one of my domains... so I couldn't have banners.. and so it would be formatted in colors I liked.
    • CommentAuthorozskry
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007
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    Hi Darren,

    I'm currently trying to achieve exactly the same kind of gallery. Can you explain how you grab images from snap.com?

    Thx.
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      CommentAuthorDarren Hoyt
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007 edited
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    It required some custom PHP to pull down the images and store them in the /uploads/ folder. The code was written by a friend I collaborated with. Translation, he wrote it and I watched. The whole thing is basically a composite of other people's hard work.

    I'm actually thinking of cleaning it up a bit and offering the whole package for download (with permission from Snap.com) on my site once the redesign launches. Check back in a few weeks and if it's not available on my site, feel free to bug me via email.
    • CommentAuthorMatt
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007
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    As long as you pull the screenshot once you should not need permission from snap.... at least that is what I say :-).
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    No, that's true. Once they're downloaded, they're locally hosted. I'm using Snap's service in a weird way, that's the only reason I thought I should give them a heads up.
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    In case anyone wants to try this out, I've put together a .zip with all the relevant files:

    http://www.darrenhoyt.com/bio/sandbox/screenshots

    The documentation is included. If anyone's interested, please give it a try, let me know if anything is confusing or doesn't work. It's my first time offering a tool like this for download so it's bound to have some kinks.

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