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Softpedia Editor's Review for WebShot
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Take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites
Written by Bogdan Popa on November 2nd, 2011
WebShot is the kind of software solution that can help you a lot when trying to take a screenshot of a full website and probably the most useful thing is that it does the whole procedure automatically.
The application has been specifically developed to work on all Windows versions out there, both 32- and 64-bit, so it can easily load on older machines as well.
WebShot can be installed in less than a minute, while the interface you’ll see afterwards will trick you into believing that the whole program is a joke and nothing more.
Actually, the application can do the whole screenshot capturing job automatically, so it all comes down to writing down the page you wish to capture and you’re ready to go.
Furthermore, if you plan to take screenshots of multiple pages at the same time, just make a list. No, don’t take a piece of paper, just make a list inside WebShot by adding multiple source URLs and the application will take care of that for you.
We’ve tested the program with multiple links from Softpedia and besides the fact that it worked pretty fast, it also did the whole job perfectly without errors or other issues.
There’s also a settings menu that lets you choose the size and the quality of the screenshots, so there’s nothing too fancy or complicated.
All things considered, WebShot is a great tool for capturing screenshots of websites, but the fact that it’s so expensive might make a lot of people change their mind.
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WebShot description
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Here are some key features of "WebShot":
· Automatic determination of page width and height that captures the whole page accurately. Frame dimensions are determined and calculated on pages that have them.
· Browser size specification allows you to capture the whole page or part of it
· Image thumbnailing reduces the final capture image easily
· Timeouts allow you to wait for activex controls to load before capturing
· Image encoding to JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP with image quality control to save on disk space
· CSV output allows you to easily parse the results of a screenshot capture operation
· CSV output of page title, meta keywords, and description helps you parse the most important information from a page
· Use within your own applications using the dll and example C source code
· Blocks most popups (javascript popups, script dialogs, injected via wmp popups, etc)
· Multiple threads allow you to quickly capture more screenshots without running multiple processes
· Custom user agents allow you to view a web page that might be served to other browsers
· Easily delete all of Internet Explorer's cache, so your hard drive doesn't get full
· Global bitmap file mapping object, reduces memory footprint for multiple threads per instance
· Configure custom HTTP post strings and HTTP authentication credentials
· Configurable message box popup automation to automatically deal with message boxes that Internet Explorer might throw
· Higher quality color quantized gif images produce better screenshots with less disk space
· PHP COM scriptability
· Actively maintained and developed
Limitations:
· Some functions are disabled:
· Color screenshots
· DLL for third-party use
· DLL documentation
· DLL example code What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed detecting redirect
· Fixed importing large url list into gui hangs
· Fixed rare crash issue closing gui
Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
· Offers to download or install software or components that the program does not require to fully function
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