SiteShoter Takes Web Site Screenshots Over Time
Windows only: Portable freeware application SiteShoter takes screenshots of web sites with a powerful array of features.
Using the utility, which (like all of the excelllent NirSoft applications) requires no installation, is easy—just add the URL to the web site you want to capture, choose a filename to save the image to, and click Start to save the screenshot. What makes this utility great is the wide range of powerful options, including a full-featured command line—you can place special formatting codes in the filename to specify a timestamp or add the URL to the filename, which becomes very useful if you wanted to save screenshots for multiple sites at once.
You can choose how often you want the screenshots to be taken—the default is every 5 minutes, but you could take a screenshot every few hours instead. Rounding out the great feature list is the ability to save your configurations for later re-use—you could use the GUI to save the options and create a command-line shortcut to run that configuration on demand.
SiteShoter is a free download for Windows only. For more great utilities, check out how to customise your right-click menu with ShellExView, or just look through our top 10 tiny & awesome Windows utilities.
SiteShoter [NirSoft via gHacks]
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@bkeifer: From the spelling it would be a long "O" sound, like in the word "hope". I too was going to comment on the spelling. Seems they need a better grip on the English language.
How that NirSoft guy is amazingly productive!
But, I'm also, having a hard time understanding the use.
... Unless, it's for cataloging minute changes in the Facebook/MySpace profiles of people I'm stalking.
l337_7r4d3r
before and after a deploy to production, offline viewing of another page that updates frequently (where you don't need the links). creating a series of still images from a live webcam feed for a time lapse video.
I don't know, porn webcams mabye?
I can't think of anything other than that.
Kandy477
@projectvirus: if it's just minutes you could just input 1440 for each day or 10080 for a week
mfusion
Neat. Might check it out. I do tend to use the Picnic Firefox-extension for taking screenshots of the website I edit and send it to drop.io for archiving purposes.
@Phoshi: I can't think of any, care to help me think of some uses?
Jake Champion
@Deimorz: for pron sites that have a sample image every day or hour?
mfusion
This is ridiculous!! - I needed a program like this a few days ago, and this was the one I found and used...and here it is!!!
photoben
I'm doing consulting for a web advertisement company. I think using a utility like this (hopefully the parameters are such that you can take a screenshot daily or weekly rather than just minutes) can be a great way to catalog how implementation of recommendations has improved analytics. Might also be a useful tool for showing customers or investors how your company is always continuing to improve and develop.
I could see this being useful if you were monitoring a webcam perhaps.
Art Gelwicks
Did they misspell their own app's name? If not, how do you pronounce it? Siteshooter? Siteshotter?
I'm not normally one to go all grammar-nazi on the internet, but c'mon... this is a product name!
bkeifer
thx to cli-support you can most likely use it in conjunction with your browser (opera) or any script that scrapes information from webpages... :-)
i once looked for a html2jpg converter and it was not easy to come by. this looks like a nice tool :-)
When I need to take a screenshot of a website I use the screengrab firefox extension [addons.mozilla.org]
or save it as a complete webpage. Printing it is also good too.
ps. Lifehacker needs a print this page button.
I'm having a very difficult time trying to figure out what use this program could possibly have.
Deimorz
@lmaonaise: I can think of a few awesome uses.
Is this really necessary?
This would be useful for creating a timelapse video of a wiki page being edited over months. And then you could upload it to Vimeo and have the artsy people oohing and aahing over it. I'm serious - and fun.
This would be useful for creating a timelapse video of a wiki page being edited over months. And then you could upload it to Vimeo and have the artsy people oohing and aahing over it. I'm serious - and fun.
This reminds me of an app that I used a long time ago that would take periodic screenshots of your desktop, no matter what other app was running at the time. When you stopped the screenshots, the app would automatically combine the images into a small movie file that would show the complete activity from start to finish. I used it for a long time to track my activities and project work, and I would love to use it again. Anyone remember something like this? Windows app, around 2001. (I know it's a long shot.)
@lmaonaise: How do you go about taking web screen shots in IT lockdown?
@lmaonaise: How do you go about taking web screen shots in IT lockdown?
@lmaonaise: How do you go about taking web screen shots in IT lockdown?