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Many had asked me how I take a full website screenshots as opposed to just what is visible on the screen. Here is how I do it.

Download and Webkit2png from Paul Hammond. You will also need PyObjC1.1 to run it. Webkit2png is a commend line tool that takes screenshot of web page using the Webkit rendering engine, whis is what Apple Safari is using.

Once you are sure that your Mac has all the requirements Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Safari 1.0 or later and PyObjc1.1, and you have downloaded Webkit2png, go to your terminal, and run this command.

python /path/to/webkit2png http://blog.jiboneus.com/

Of cause, you replace “http://blog.jiboneus.com” to the site you want to capture.

It not only take screenshot of what is visible on the screen but if the web page require scrolling down for more content, it will capture the screenshots of the entire page. You’ll have 3 image, clipped, full and a thumbnail.

For those who isn’t too fancy about working with the command line in terminal, there is Paparazzi!. It’s based on Webkit2png but has a nice Cocoa GUI.

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