CapyCapt

Simple web app for capturing live screenshots of another web site. Uses Capybara-webkit's headless browser running server-side and Sinatra for basic request handling.

Dependencies

All capybara-webkit's dependencies must be met (ie. Xvfb and QT development libraries). Therefore, it must run on a full-featured server and will not work on Heroku.

Usage

• Deploy CapyCapt as a normal Sinatra app.
• Get snapshot by specifying URL (uri-encoded) in the query string:
  • http://mysite/?url=http://m.meetup.com
  • height and width can be optionally be set: &width=1024&height=1024

Example Installation

• Platform: Ubuntu Server 11.04 (ex: EC2 ami-06ad526f)
• Install dependencies

$ apt-get install ruby git
$ apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

• Clone & test run

$ cd your-www-dir
$ git clone git://github.com/micahyoung/capycapt.git
$ cd capycapt
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ thin start

• Deploy

License

MIT http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php