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yvoschaap | 3 years ago

I tried something similar like this to render thumbnail of websites (at a very small file-size). E.g. https://twitter.com/yvoschaap/status/1446397003316047872

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marginalia_nu|3 years ago

How small are you getting them? I'm straight up screenshotting websites (e.g. https://search.marginalia.nu/screenshot/245804). Seem to come in at on average 17 Kb, based on a sample size of 550K screenshots.

fy20|3 years ago

That's pretty cool! How do you go about removing the details? Is it done in JavaScript before the screenshot is taken, or by post-processing the SVG?

mrkramer|3 years ago

Isn't this something like archive.ph is doing? Snapshotting and screenshotting websites. I'm referring both to you and the op.

dj_gitmo|3 years ago

https://archive.ph/1NNZr

That looks like a Web Archive (WARC) and a PNG screen shot. I think you can make a screenshot with CasperJS. The WARC can be created by wget.

codetrotter|3 years ago

That is super neat! Did you end up having any users/customers?