Type | Name | Platform | Version | Price | URL | Remarks |
Individual web page in static form. | Webkit2png | Mac OS X | 0.4 | Free | A command-line operated programme designed for screenshots of individual web pages. A similar programme, khtml2png, exists for the Linux operative system (not tested), as well as Paparazzi! for Mac OS X with a graphic interface ( see test ). |
Conclusion |
Webkit2png can make a screenshot of an individual web page. An advantage in using this programme to archive web pages is that the page visually appears 100% as experienced in the browser. However, the programme does not archive dynamic elements. A strong point in Webkit2png is that the programme is operated from the command line, which enables automatic archiving with the aid of scripts. See an example of a simple UNIX-script for archiving 17 websites or the script photourl.sh that archives the URLs specified in a text file using the webkit2png programme |
Recommended settings |
In order to use Webkit2png with Mac OS X, a number of criteria must be fulfilled: (2) PyObjC 1.1 (an Objective-C Bridge) must be installed on the computer. The package can be downloaded from (2,7 MB): http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/software/ . (3) The Safari browser must be installed on the computer (included with Mac OS X, or can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/safari/ ). |
Archiving speed | |||
Archiving time (min) | File size (MB) | Archiving speed (MB/min) | Degree of presence required |
Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
Test details |
Tested by: Bo Hovgaard Thomasen Tested by archiving: http://www.dr.dk/skum/boogie, http://rundfunk.tv2.dk Speed test carried out by archiving: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/html/nyheder/baggrund/tema2003/krise/index.jhtml |
The following have been evaluated according to the following scale for the number of archived elements: 0=none, 1=few, 2=average, 3=most, 4=all
Structure | |||
a | 3 | a | |
a | Cascading Style Sheets | 4 | The archived material follows the online web pageís CSS. |
Page composition | 4 | All elements are correctly positioned on the archived web page. | |
Background | 4 | All backgrounds are archived | |
Pop-up-windows | 0 | The programme can only archive individual pages | |
Archiving of all the desired web pages | - | Not relevant for this programme | |
Movement between elements in the structure | |||
Link | 0 | aa | |
Print/writing | Textual link | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Pull-down menu | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Formulas such as login | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Image | Animation | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Graphics | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Photo | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Moving images | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Link target | 0 | a | |
Print/writing | Text | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Image | Animation | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Graphics | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Photo | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Moving images | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static | |
Other | - | a | |
Sound | a | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Automation | 0 | a | |
aa | Automatic redirection | 0 | Links are not active, the archived material is static |
Movement in elements in the structure | |||
Automatic + inherent | 0 | a | |
Print/writing | 0 | Movable print/writing is archived only as snapshot | |
Image | Animation | 0 | Animation is archived only as screenshot |
Moving images | 0 | Moving images archived only as screenshot | |
Banner ads | 0 | Banner ads archived only as screenshot | |
Sound | Background sound | 0 | Sound is not archived. |
Banner ads | 0 | Sound is not archived. | |
Automatic + online | 0 | aa | |
Print/writing | Chat as reader | 0 | The archived material is static. Chat can only be archived as snapshots, with no movement. |
Image | Moving images | 0 | The archived material is static |
Sound | 0 | Sound is not archived. | |
User intervention + inherent | 0 | a | |
Print/writing | Archived chat | 0 | The archived material is static |
Mouse-over | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Quizzes | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Clickable maps | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Image | Non-streamed image (such as slide show, clickable map) | 0 | The archived material is static |
Games | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Quizzes | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Clickable maps (w. zoom or activation) | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Mouse-over | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Sound | Non-streamed sound (e.g. activated in games, quizzes, etc.) | 0 | Sound is not archived. |
Mouse-over | 0 | Sound is not archived. | |
User intervention + online | 0 | a | |
Print/writing | Chat (as participant) | 0 | The archived material is static |
Polls | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Test-yourself | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Image | Streamed images | 0 | The archived material is static |
Games | 0 | The archived material is static | |
Sound | Streaming (both archived and live) | 0 | The archived material is static |
Non-movable elements | |||
aa | 3 | aa | |
Print/writing | ss | 4 | All text is archived. |
Image | 4 | All images are correctly archived. | |
Sound | 0 | Sound is not archived. | |
The test was carried out by graduate student Bo Hovgaard Thomasen during the period from July- December 2004, and its premises and main results are explicated in the text Test of software and strategies for micro-archiving websites.
Note: We do not have the resources to offer technical support or other advice on the use of the tested archiving programme beyond what can be found on this web page.
