Screen Shot of website using terminal in Ubuntu

gnome-web-photo is an utility provided by gnome which is used to take screen-shot of website using terminal.

To install it in Ubuntu open terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and type the following command

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-web-photo

Lets see usage of gnome-web-photo

1. Take screen shot(photo) of any website, let's say youtube

$ gnome-web-photo --mode=photo --file http://youtube.com yt.png

Note: yt.png is the name of the screenshot file on your machine. You can save screenshot in any image format like .jpg , .png , .bmp etc.

2. Take screen shot(thumbnail) of any website, let's say youtube

$ gnome-web-photo --mode=thumbnail --file http://youtube.com yt.png

3. Specify desired width of the Screen shot(photo)

$ gnome-web-photo --mode=photo -w 1000 --file http://youtube.com yt.png

Note: -w option is used specify width of the web page. If width is not specified then default width of web page is 1024.

4. Specify desired size of the Screen shot(thumbnail)

$ gnome-web-photo --mode=thumbnail -s 256 --file http://youtube.com yt.png

Note:

• -s option is used specify size of the thumbnail. 
• If size is not specified then default size of thumbnail is 256.
• You can't increase the size of thumbnail more than 256.
• -s is only available in thumbnail mode.

You can explore more about gnome-web-photo by typing following command on terminal

1. man gnome-web-photo
2. gnome-web-photo --help

That's it.
Enjoy :)

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