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A very simple search gives me discussions of both websnapr and snap_preview project in the first three results.

Actually, I have been playing with Websnapr and it appears the I have unintentionally, but lucky for you, committed the minor changes to make it work. The reason I haven't announced it is that it is, at present, incompatible with click tracking. I will look more closely at the code STW gives in their FAQ to see if I can adapt that to make it work with click tracking.

Just install and enable Websnapr and it should start working.

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I actually did this a while ago in D5.
I background requested the websnappr image, cached it locally, then attached it to weblink node as an image_attach.
Problem was that the websnappr default image (for as-yet unprocessed pages) came back sometimes, and I had to have a 'refresh image' button (possible) or a cron job to retry etc.
And it got fiddly so I stopped. ... and carried on investigating generating my own web service to make screenshots (hard).

It was important for me to cache the image locally rather than point at websnappr all the time, but that may not be an issue for others.

Code is a mess, not really worth digging up.

Dan, that is pretty much what I had in mind doing. I don't want to rely on Websnapr all the time, besides, on redirect, it's not available. I'd really like to see the code.

Yea I could see this being useful.

Wow. Digging through my archives I found a lot of great ideas that died at the half-baked stages.

• An SVG renderer, (with nodes as XML)
• An embedded links checker (background-realtime, that dropped status icons on the page for editors) ,
• a drag & drop shopping cart,
• a scripted tutorial module that actually animates the cursor and walked you through and clicked buttons while you watched,
• a totally XSL-based theme engine and process pipeline,
• a process that would scan a raw list of links into a whole bunch of weblink nodes - auto-retrieving their title and description as it went.
• A fix to drupal upload that supported save-as when uploading, a filebrowser, the ability to attach a 'folder' to a node, and re-use of existing attachments.

Golly, all got to proof-of-concept and no further.

Oh yeah. And this. Found it eventually. Drupal 5.
I think it works OK. I dropped it after I got bored of working around needing to wait for the placeholder image to be refreshed.

Thanks, Dan, I'll have a look.

Meanwhile think about the raw list scanner for #452284: Multiple Web Link input. And I might be interested in your second one too.

As an update, I had to disable Websnapr because it was causing more trouble than it was worth. It needs considerably more set up than I have time to mess with right now.

See http://drupal.org/node/519558#comment-1908674

@dman: is this similar to "process that would scan a raw list of links into a whole bunch of weblink nodes - auto-retrieving their title and description as it went."