Website thumbnail generator with CarrierWave

[Itamaryu]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for a way to create website thumbnails using CarrierWave,
any suggestions how can I do it ?
Is CarrierWave the right solution for it ?

[Jacob Tjørnholm]

Hi, 

Probably not by itself. Carrierwave handles the uploading and processing of files, so given a full size screenshot of a website, you could easily create a thumbnail version. 

If you need to create a screenshot from a URL, you might want to look at something like wkhtmltopdf. This would obviously produce a PDF which you could then convert to an image file (maybe using ImageMagick? I'm not sure). 

/Jacob

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[Itamaryu]

Thanks Jacob,
I'll try using one the the online tools for the screenshots and then resize it with Carrierwave.
The Pdf option seems to be too "long" (image => pdf => image => thumbnail).

How can I connect between one the online tools, i.e url2png.com , and CarrierWave ?

Itamar

On Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:49:04 PM UTC+3, Jacob Tjørnholm wrote:

Hi, 

Probably not by itself. Carrierwave handles the uploading and processing of files, so given a full size screenshot of a website, you could easily create a thumbnail version. 

If you need to create a screenshot from a URL, you might want to look at something like wkhtmltopdf. This would obviously produce a PDF which you could then convert to an image file (maybe using ImageMagick? I'm not sure). 

/Jacob

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Hi guys,
I'm looking for a way to create website thumbnails using CarrierWave,
any suggestions how can I do it ?
Is CarrierWave the right solution for it ?

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[Jacob Tjørnholm]

I see that url2png creates a URL for the screenshot, for example: http://goo.gl/xRd5v

Carrierwave supports uploading via a URL, see https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave/#uploading-files-from-a-remote-location

So you should be able to combine the two and add thumbnail processing (https://github.com/jnicklas/carrierwave/#adding-versions ). 

/Jacob

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[Itamaryu]

Thanks Jacob!
I think I'll go this way. W'll keep you updated when it's done.