How to capture a screenshot of a web page without using Print Screen

Posted on October 16, 2007 at 1:01 pm

Have you ever needed to capture a snapshot of a web page to send to a friend or maybe just to save for some special reason? Well, there are a couple of ways to capture a screenshot of an entire web page and I’ll go through those methods in this article.

If you simply want to capture a normal screenshot of the visible part of a web page, you can use two online tools that will do the job perfectly:

Simple type in the URL and choose a size from micro to large and click Capture! It’s as simple as that. WebSnapr will put your request into a queue and after a few seconds reload the page to view your thumbnail. The cool thing about it is that you can copy the URL link in the address bar and send that to someone via IM chat, email, or whatever. Or you can just right-click and save the file.

WebSnapr is good, but thumbalizr is better and here’s why: using thumbalizr, you can capture an entire scrolling web page. So, for example, if you take a look at the screenshot generated by WebSnapr, you’ll always get this:

However, if you do the same thing with thumbalizr and choose the Page option, you’ll get the following result:

As you can see, it captured the ENTIRE web page that a person would see if they were to scroll all the way down! Pretty cool! Also, thumbalizr gives you more options to choose from for the size, including making it any custom size that you want.

Using these two services should save you from having to use the dreadful Windows Print Screen option. It works, but you have to re-size it yourself, make it small, etc, etc. Too much work! Check out these sites for all your web page screen-capturing needs!

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4 Responses to “How to capture a screenshot of a web page without using Print Screen”

Nirmal said on : October 16th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

If it puts in queue, how much time does it take to get screen print? There is a small software called Zapper or so, I’m not sure of the name, its a great screen capture utility, its a freeware also.

akishore said on : October 17th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

Nirmal, for my site it took about 30 seconds at the largest size. For the smaller sizes, it’s less than 20 seconds!

Sumaiyah said on : October 18th, 2007 at 6:33 am

Another handy way to do this is using IE7 Pro (if using IE, of course). One of the features of IE7 Pro (which a free download) is the ‘Save current tab as image to…’ feature. It allows you to save the page as an image in a variety of formats. Very handy.