hya - good evening dear perl-folks want to grab screenshots from sites like the following.. 

www.google.com
   www.msnbc.com
    news.bbc.co.uk
    www.yahoo.com

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for a mechanize-scraper i take this one here 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;

my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize::Firefox();

open(INPUT, "<url.txt") or die $!;

while (<INPUT>) {
        chomp;
        print "$_\n";
        $mech->get($_);
        my $png = $mech->content_as_png();
        my $name = "$_";
        $name =~s/^www\.//;
        $name .= ".png";
        open(OUTPUT, ">$name");
        print OUTPUT $png;
        sleep (5);
}

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Well i forgot to mention that i only need to have the images as small thumbnails - so we do not have to have a very very large files...

i only need to grab a thumbnail screenshot of them. How do I do that?

my $png = $mech->content_as_png();

The line returns the given tab or the current page rendered as PNG image.
as the documentation states:

All parameters are optional. $tab defaults to the current tab. If the coordinates are given, that rectangle will be cut out. The coordinates should be a hash with the four usual entries, left,top,width,height. This is specific to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.

Well does that have any impact on our code - can we make the code somewhat more specifical to our needs. Note:the files i store are a bit smaller - if we limit them after fetching from the web !? aren īt they!?

BTW; Currently, the data transfer between Firefox and Perl is done Base64-encoded, isn t it. Well It would be beneficial to find what 's necessary to make JSON handle all the binary data more gracefully what do you think. Love to hear from you

Now i try to install mozrepl - if you or anybody has got some tipps on that. should i run

a. zypper in .or

b. get it as a firefox plugin greetings

In reply to Perl Mechanize issues - how to make a script running faster with less overhead by Perlbeginner1

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