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url2img

HTTP server with API for capturing screenshots of websites

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HTTP server with API for capturing screenshots of websites

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-17 20:57:26 UTC to 2017-04-13 10:39:32 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 142016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 232017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 10

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 142016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 212016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 282016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 122016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 192016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 262016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 232017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 302017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 62017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 272017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 62017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 32017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 102017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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swah·Apr 13, 2017
Related: I want to take screenshots of a few news websites for a little fake news project of mine, and most approaches return something completely different than what I'm seeing when I open Chrome. Limited height would be better/ok (something like the first 3000 pixels). Low volume / can be slow (30 seconds would be ok). Those news websites many times have infinite scrolling. I've tried: - phantomJS (rendering sucked, tried every technique I could find to wait for JS to load) - wkhtmltopdf (almost ok, generates a huge 30M image with all the height, no antialiasing it seems) - https://github.com/gen2brain/url2img (this was the best so far, uses Qt bindings but not the latest version) - actually run a headless browser in DigitalOcean with xvfb-run and take a screenshot: I failed at this What I didn't tried was Selenium, because it seemed ev
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en harder. How would you guys do it?
In Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
swah·Apr 6, 2017Submission

Ask HN: How to take a screenshot of a complex website in 2017?

Hey, (I fail at this every two years, here we go again, now with your help). I want to take screenshots of a few news websites for a little fake news project of mine, and most approaches return something completely different than what I'm seeing when I open Chrome. Limited height would be better/ok (something like the first 3000 pixels). Those news websites many times have infinite scrolling. I've tried: - phantomJS (rendering sucked, tried every technique I could find to wait for JS to load) - wkhtmltopdf (almost ok, generates a huge 30M image with all the height, no antialiasing it seems) - https://github.com/gen2brain/url2img (this was the best so far, uses Qt bindings but not the latest version) - actually run a headless browser in DigitalOcean with xvfb-run and take a screenshot: I failed at this What I didn't tried was Selenium, bec
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ause it seemed even harder. How would you do it?
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