Any recommended techniques for remote capture of webpages as images?

[tiburblium]

Hey everyone,

Anyone know of a 3rd party library (or a technique/method of doing so with the core php library) for rendering a remote webpage and saving it as an image?

ex:

$websitepng = render_remote_site_as_image('www.google.com');
where $websitepng would be an image of google.com

I can write a Java program to do this, but as it would be part of a php application php would be better

Thanks for any tips!

[bradgrafelman]

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