Converting HTML to an Image [duplicate]

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I have a URL and I want to convert that webpage screenshot to an image. Please let me know if we can do this using php or some other tools that can be used with PHP/Linux.

Answer 1

This isn't the best solution, but you could convert the HTML page to a PDF, then use imagemagick to convert the pdf to a jpeg using this command exec("convert sample.pdf sample.jpeg"). To convert HTML to pdf, see this question.

Convert HTML + CSS to PDF with PHP?

Answer 2

The shutter screenshot tool is able to do that.

It's in the menu: File -> New -> Web

Can be used with Linux and PHP on the same system. See the manpage for commandline options to be invoked from PHP.