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by waleedka 4431 days ago
It's two parts: An App Engine/Python for the UI and user registration, and a Linux server for image capturing (Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, ...etc.). At first we used popular libraries like Phantomjs, but eventually had to write our own to scale better.

I'm experimenting right now with moving the image capturing code to an App Engine managed VM to simplify things and make it scale easier.
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JustARandomGuy 4431 days ago
Which library are you using for image capture? Been using webkit2png ( https://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png/ ) for a personal project, but I'm interested to hear your experiences.
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manishrc 4431 days ago
Could you mention why you stopped using PhantomJS? Also, how are you supporting flash?
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tokenizerrr 4431 days ago
Could you please elaborate on what your own implementation turned out to be?
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