Webpage Thumbnailer

Webpage Thumbnailer is an advanced application that can capture entire pages from multiple specified websites and autosave them to the computer as image files.

The installation is simple but you must have .NET Framework. Afterward, you're welcomed by a normal window with a simple design and well-structured layout, where you can populate the task list with multiple websites before starting the automatic image capturing and saving operation.

It's possible to write multiple URLs, add local files with saved webpages (HTM, HTML, MHT, MHTML or TXT format), add plain text documents containing URLs (one per line), as well as save the current list to TXT format.

Only the selected links are taken into account, so you can deselect any of them or remove them from the list. Buttons are available for removing the current or all URLs, as well as for checking and unchecking all URLs.

During the task, you can view the URLs and file paths along with their status (success or fail). It's possible to pause or cancel the entire job, as well as to retry if Webpage Thumbnailer failed for any links. It automatically opens the destination folder to display the saved images.

As far as program settings are concerned, you can modify the default saving directory, image extension (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP or TIF) and file naming pattern (URL full path, URL MD5 hash, timestamp, or number).

You can ask Webpage Thumbnailer to overwrite any existing files and open the images in the external editor, adjust the JPEG quality, restrict the image width and height (thumbnails) instead of creating full-sized pictures, and restrict the browser size instead of determining automatically.

The browser timeout and delay times can be changed too. You can also disable scripts, Java and ActiveX, use force to take screenshots on timeout, tweak the number of threads (from 1 to 8), hide the systray icon, and minimize the tool to the systray. Settings can be restored to default.

Advanced users familiarized with command lines and the Windows events scheduler can schedule tasks for a single or multiple webpages (one URL or list with URLs). Help documentation is included.

To sum it up, Webpage Thumbnailer comes equipped with rich and approachable options for capturing entire webpages to save them as image files. CPU and RAM consumption was minimal in our tests.