Last friday, I was looking for an easy way to generate small website screenshots or webshot. I only had 3000 thousands webshots to generate (which is pretty low compared to web2.0 news sites).

Moreover, this is a one shot generation so any “quick and dirty” solution would have satisfied me Here are the possible solutions I found:

• Webservices: there are plenty of webservices to generate webshots on the go. The pricing is quite low and this is definitely a quick way to build your webshots collection. Among others, you can check: webthumb, site thumbshot, Quick Thumbnail, Thumbalizr. You can check google for more…
• Applications: you can also (as I did) rely on simple applications/scripts like CutyCapt, IECapt, Paparazzi, webkit2png or khtml2png. On the first pass, I used CutyCapt, but on second pass I switched to IECapt since a lot of my websites needed flash plugin in order to render properly.
• Build your own server: there are also a couple of articles describing how to build you own webshot server: with python and qtwebkit, with firefox. You can also check thummer(a global webshot server solution) or this article.

For me, CutyCapt and IECapt (with some batch script) did pretty well