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Snapshotter is a Windows command line program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites and convert html or text files to images. It is a command line interface for easy access from scripts or the web. The following image formats are supported JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF. The program takes full color screenshots. The demo version will make Gray screenshots only.

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The demo is the full version but will create Gray images only will never expire.

Snapshotter -u "www.mewsoft.com" -o "c:\mewsoft.gif" -w 120 -h 90
 

Takes a full screenshot capture of www.mewsoft.com and create the thumbnail images 120x90 pixels and save it to the file c:\mewsoft.gif
 

Snapshotter -u "www.mewsoft.com"
 

Takes a full screenshot of www.mewsoft.com. The image file name is an MD5 hash 32 bytes of the URL created in the program installation folder.
 

Snapshotter -u "www.download.com" -w 120 -h 90
 

Takes a full screenshot capture of www.download.com and create the thumbnail images 120x90 pixels
 

Snapshotter -l "URLs.txt" -o %h -w 120 -h 90 -i "jpg" -q 90
 

Takes screenshots capture for each URL in the input file URLs.txt (each line must have one URL only) and create a thumbnail of it with size 120x90 for each URL and set the thumbnail image type to JPG with image quality 90%.
 

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Before you start using the program, you need to register the program DLLs.
To register the program DLLs, run the file registerdlls.bat once which exists
in the same program folder. You need to run this file once only.

To get the program help, just start the program from the command prompt:

C:\Snapshotter\Snapshotter
Snapshotter Version 2.0.0. Copyrights (c) 2007-2011 Mewsoft Corporation www.mewsoft.com. All rights reserved.

Usage:
Example single website:

Snapshotter -u "http://www.mewsoft.com" -o "C:\mewsoft.jpg" -w 120 -h 90

Batch URL File:

Snapshotter -l "URLs.txt -o %m -w 120 -h 90

Switch Description:
-u Website URL
-o Output filename:
%m URL MD5 Hash (Default). Created in the current folder.
%d URL Domain name. Created in the current folder.
%h URL Hostname. Created in the current folder.
%f URL Filename. Created in the current folder.
other Creats the filename with entered string in the path specfied.
-p Output directory. Default is the application directory.

-fp Filename prefix. Prepends this to the the filename.
-fs Filename suffix. Append this to the filename.
-fd Filename date time format suffix. Append string with date time formating switchs.
    Date time switchs are %y=Year, %m=Month, %d=Day, %h=Hour, %n=Minute, %s=Second,
    %dd Day of the year 1-366, %w=Weekday 1-7, %ww=Week 1-53, %mn=Month name, %wn=Weekday name.
    Example: -fd ""-%y-%m-%d_%h-%n-%s"".
-ft Filename contains date time formating switchs. Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled).
    Use all the switches of the -fd option to format the filename.
    Example: -o ""mewsoft.com-%y-%m-%d.jpg"" -ft 1.

-w Image width. Default is the full browser width.
-h  Image height. Default is the full browser height.
-bw Browser width. Default Automatically determined (Set to 0 for default).
-bh    Browser height. Default Automatically determined (Set to 0 for default).
 

-bw Browser width. Default Automatically determined (Set to 0 for default).
-bh Browser height. Default Automatically determined (Set to 0 for default).
-cw Clip width only. Clip image width, Default 0 (0 = full image width).
-ch Clip height only. Clip image height, Default 0 (0 = full image height)
-c Clip rectangle. Clip image rectangle, Default 0,0,0,0 (note, no spaces).
    Format: -c "x|y|w|h" no spaces. Use -1 for full width or full height.
    Example: -c "0|0|-1|800" to clip the image to height 800 with full width.

-g Make gray or black and white images. (0 = black and white only, 1= gray).

-z Zoon ratio of the html page between 1 and 5.

-sm Smoothing mode of resizing. 0 = Default, 1 = HighSpeed, 2 = HighQuality, 3 = None, 4 = AntiAlias.

-im Interpolation mode of resizing. 0 = Default, 1 = LQ, 2 = HQ, 3 = Bilinear, 4 = Bicubic.
5 = NearestNeighbor, 6 = HQBilinear, 7 = HQBicubic.

-xdpi Set the image resolution on x axis. Formats like TIFF support DPI.
-ydpi Set the image resolution on y axis. Formats like TIFF support DPI.

-k Draw watermark text on the snapped image at the specificed position with the given size, color and font.
    Format: -k "x|y|Text|FontSize|FontColorHex|FonyName".
    Example: -k "0|0|Mewsoft|72|FF00FF|Arial".
    With Shadow Format: -k "x|y|Text|FontSize|FontColorHex|FonyName|dx|dy|ShadowColorHex".
    Example: -k "0|0|Mewsoft|72|FF00FF|Arial|15|12|FFFFFF".

-login Set the user name and password. Useful on IIS with ASP or ASP.Net etc.
    Format: -login "userName|domainName|passwd".

-realm Set the http authentication user name and password Realm.
    Format: -realm ""userName|passWord"".

-proxy Allow to set custom proxy for IE.
    Format: -proxy "Host|userName|passWord|autoConfig".
    Host can be IP:Port pair and autoConfig eithre 0 or 1.

-t    Browser timeout (in milliseconds). Default 40000 ms
-i    Image type extension (allowed values: jpg gif png bmp tiff). Default jpg
-q    JPEG image quality (0 to 100) .Default 85.
-r    Keep thumbnail image aspect ration. Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-d    Set image size as browser size, Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-f    Force snapshot if time out, Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-a    Enable ActiveX, Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-j    Enable Java, Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-s    Enable Script, Default 0 (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
-x    Wait time (milliseconds) after the html document is downloaded (default 1000).
-l    URL list text file, each URL on one line for batch processing.

You can use the switches with or without the dash -, for example u or -u or /u are the same.

Also you can use full swith name instead of the shortcut, most commands have full name like this:

u=url, o=out, w=width, h=height, bw=bwidth, bh=bheight, q=quality, t=timeout, x=wait, i=image,
a=activex, j=java, s=script, f=force, d=dimension, r=ratio, c=clip, cw=clipwidth, ch=clipheight, h=help,
fp=filenameprefix, fs=filenamesuffix, fd=filenamedate, ft=filenametime, g=gray, k=Watermark, im=interpolationmode, sm=smoothingmode, z=zoom

You must allow ActiveX and scripts if you want the screenshot to show the flash and other scripts on pages. To enable ActiveX just set the switch -a to 1 (default disabled set to 0), to enable the Javescripts and scripting set the switch -s to 1 (default disabled set to 0), to enable Java set the switch -j to 1 (default disabled set to 0). For example to take screenshot with all enabled:

Snapshotter u "dating.com" -o "dating250x300.jpg" -q 90 -w 250 -h 300 -a 1 -j 1 -s 1

The program can be used to process a list or websites. To use the program to take screenshots or thumbnails of list of websites, simply create a text file with the list of the websites, put each website address on one line, then run the program with the "l" switch like this:

Snapshotter -l "URLs.txt -o %m -w 120 -h 90

In batch mode, you can set the output file name for each URL by one of the following values for the switch -o:

%m URL MD5 Hash (Default).
%d URL Domain name.
%h URL Hostname.
%f URL Filename.

The images files will be created in the install folder or in the specified directory set by the switch -p, for example:

Snapshotter -l "URLs.txt -o %h -w 120 -h 90 -p "C:\mewsoft\shots"

This will create thumbnails of URL list and put the images in the folder C:\mewsoft\shots

You can use all other switches to control images type, quality, browser size in batch mode the same as in single URL mode.

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