Need Help ASAP!

[Chad A. Beckner]

Hey all,

I've spent all day trying to figure this out. What I need is a script to
grab a webpage and display it as an (thumbnail?) image on one of my pages.
GotDotNet has a webservice to do this, but I need everything to be "local",
i.e. I can't call their webservice. Does anyone know where I can find the
code to do this (I think I've seen it out there before, just can't find it
again). Any help would be tremendously appreciated!!!

Thanks to everyone,

Chad

[clintonG]

Look through CodeProject.com as I recall I 'may' have
seen something there but I have no clue which search term to use.

You 'do' want to Google: "screen scrape"+"asp.ne t" to get started
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A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee. com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

"Chad A. Beckner" <Ch*********@Pr ospectiveLink.c om> wrote in message
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Hey all,

I've spent all day trying to figure this out. What I need is a script to
grab a webpage and display it as an (thumbnail?) image on one of my pages.
GotDotNet has a webservice to do this, but I need everything to be "local",
i.e. I can't call their webservice. Does anyone know where I can find the
code to do this (I think I've seen it out there before, just can't find it
again). Any help would be tremendously appreciated!!!

Thanks to everyone,

Chad

[Chad A. Beckner]

I've looked through there (trust me!) All I can find is about scraping the
"contents" of the page, I need an actual screen "capture". Any ideas?

Chad
"clintonG" <csgallagher@RE ************@me tromilwaukee.co m> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. ..

Look through CodeProject.com as I recall I 'may' have
seen something there but I have no clue which search term to use.

You 'do' want to Google: "screen scrape"+"asp.ne t" to get started
--
<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee. com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

"Chad A. Beckner" <Ch*********@Pr ospectiveLink.c om> wrote in message
news:e5******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl...

Hey all,

I've spent all day trying to figure this out. What I need is a script to grab a webpage and display it as an (thumbnail?) image on one of my pages. GotDotNet has a webservice to do this, but I need everything to be "local", i.e. I can't call their webservice. Does anyone know where I can find the code to do this (I think I've seen it out there before, just can't find it again). Any help would be tremendously appreciated!!!

Thanks to everyone,

Chad

[John Saunders]

"Chad A. Beckner" <Ch*********@Pr ospectiveLink.c om> wrote in message
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I've looked through there (trust me!) All I can find is about scraping the "contents" of the page, I need an actual screen "capture". Any ideas?

Chad,

Since the browser is what creates an image from HTML, I expect you'd have to
get that image from the browser, somehow. It's not really an ASP.NET
question.
--
John Saunders
johnwsaundersii i at hotmail

[Chad A. Beckner]

I disagree, it IS an ASP .NET question... I want to create an image of a
remote webpage, and display it in my aspx file (not include an image "from"
their page). I know this is possible, I've seen it out there, but there's
not very good documentation on how to do it. See this site for an example
of what I am trying to do:

http://www.alexa.com/search?q=yahoo

Chad

"John Saunders" <jo************ **@notcoldmail. com> wrote in message
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"Chad A. Beckner" <Ch*********@Pr ospectiveLink.c om> wrote in message
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I've looked through there (trust me!) All I can find is about scraping the

"contents" of the page, I need an actual screen "capture". Any ideas?

Chad,

Since the browser is what creates an image from HTML, I expect you'd have

to get that image from the browser, somehow. It's not really an ASP.NET
question.
--
John Saunders
johnwsaundersii i at hotmail

[ashelley]

nah, it isn't really a .net question. you are going to have to launch
a instance of a browser, get it to load the page and copy the window
(print screen pretty much), save it to an image and then display it.

It is non trivial and non asp.net.

-Adam

[Richard]

Ofcourse its a .NET question, he ask's for it. and his question is about
..NET making a printscreen. He doesn't want to do it manual by making a
printscreen but he wants it automaticly in .NET. Can this be done? I dont
know if it can be done but for now it would be better if someone replies
that actually does know if it can be done or not. Anyway I myself want to
know aswell if it can be done and how.

Richard
<as******@inlan dkwpp.com> schreef in bericht
news:1p******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...

nah, it isn't really a .net question. you are going to have to launch
a instance of a browser, get it to load the page and copy the window
(print screen pretty much), save it to an image and then display it.

It is non trivial and non asp.net.

-Adam

[ashelley]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:57:10 +0200, "Richard" <ri*****@nospam .com>
wrote:

Ofcourse its a .NET question, he ask's for it. and his question is about
.NET making a printscreen. He doesn't want to do it manual by making a
printscreen but he wants it automaticly in .NET. Can this be done? I dont
know if it can be done but for now it would be better if someone replies
that actually does know if it can be done or not. Anyway I myself want to
know aswell if it can be done and how.

Richard

" nah, it isn't really a .net question"
was supposed to be "nah, it isn't really an asp.net question" as he
insisted. It was my opinion that he might think that a web page can
be directly interpreted as an image without a heavy and expensive
renderer ( a fully capable browser if he wants to render pages
accurately). It could probably done with asp.net but its more of a
windows programming with .net question.

thats all i was saying. no offense.

-Adam

[clintonG]

Hey Chad you owe me big time :-) for taking my time to go digging
through the nightmare that is my Favorites collection and finding this [1]
control that shows the objective can be done. Whether it is elegant
or not is a matter of personal opinion.

--
<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee. com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

[1] http://www.tonec.com/products/wssh/index.html

<as******@inlan dkwpp.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:57:10 +0200, "Richard" <ri*****@nospam .com>
wrote:

Ofcourse its a .NET question, he ask's for it. and his question is about
.NET making a printscreen. He doesn't want to do it manual by making a
printscreen but he wants it automaticly in .NET. Can this be done? I dont
know if it can be done but for now it would be better if someone replies
that actually does know if it can be done or not. Anyway I myself want to
know aswell if it can be done and how.

Richard

" nah, it isn't really a .net question"
was supposed to be "nah, it isn't really an asp.net question" as he
insisted. It was my opinion that he might think that a web page can
be directly interpreted as an image without a heavy and expensive
renderer ( a fully capable browser if he wants to render pages
accurately). It could probably done with asp.net but its more of a
windows programming with .net question.

thats all i was saying. no offense.

-Adam

[Chad A. Beckner]

Thanks ClintonG. Only 1 more question: I don't want to purchase any
software, I would like to code for how to do this... :) Sorry to be
difficult (and I really appreciate you going through your Favorites (I have
a ton too, so I know how it is!), I just need to figure out how to do this
myself. It's not for a commercial app, but it is something that I need to
do.

I'll keep looking too, but if anyone has info, I'd be much obliged!

Chad
"clintonG" <csgallagher@RE ************@me tromilwaukee.co m> wrote in message
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Hey Chad you owe me big time :-) for taking my time to go digging
through the nightmare that is my Favorites collection and finding this [1]
control that shows the objective can be done. Whether it is elegant
or not is a matter of personal opinion.

--
<%= Clinton Gallagher
A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
NET csgallagher@ REMOVETHISTEXT metromilwaukee. com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

[1] http://www.tonec.com/products/wssh/index.html

<as******@inlan dkwpp.com> wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:57:10 +0200, "Richard" <ri*****@nospam .com>
wrote:

Ofcourse its a .NET question, he ask's for it. and his question is about.NET making a printscreen. He doesn't want to do it manual by making a
printscreen but he wants it automaticly in .NET. Can this be done? I dontknow if it can be done but for now it would be better if someone repliesthat actually does know if it can be done or not. Anyway I myself want toknow aswell if it can be done and how.

Richard

" nah, it isn't really a .net question"
was supposed to be "nah, it isn't really an asp.net question" as he
insisted. It was my opinion that he might think that a web page can
be directly interpreted as an image without a heavy and expensive
renderer ( a fully capable browser if he wants to render pages
accurately). It could probably done with asp.net but its more of a
windows programming with .net question.

thats all i was saying. no offense.

-Adam