[yvoschaap]

I tried something similar like this to render thumbnail of websites (at a very small file-size). E.g. https://twitter.com/yvoschaap/status/1446397003316047872

[marginalia_nu]

How small are you getting them? I'm straight up screenshotting websites (e.g. https://search.marginalia.nu/screenshot/245804). Seem to come in at on average 17 Kb, based on a sample size of 550K screenshots.

[fy20]

That's pretty cool! How do you go about removing the details? Is it done in JavaScript before the screenshot is taken, or by post-processing the SVG?

[mrkramer]

Isn't this something like archive.ph is doing? Snapshotting and screenshotting websites. I'm referring both to you and the op.

[dj_gitmo]

https://archive.ph/1NNZr

That looks like a Web Archive (WARC) and a PNG screen shot. I think you can make a screenshot with CasperJS. The WARC can be created by wget.

[mrkramer]

Yea you are right about PNG but wrong about WARC. Archive.ph doesn't use WARC.

[dredmorbius]

What does it use, if you know?

Source?

[mrkramer]

Their FAQ says: https://archive.ph/faq#:~:text=Which%20parts%20of,of%201024x....

Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#:~:text=Web%20pa....

So I assumed they don't use it but idk for sure.

[dredmorbius]

Thanks.

[codetrotter]

That is super neat! Did you end up having any users/customers?