Agnivo Roy

Computer users and mainly webmasters often need to make exact screenshots of websites for various purposes. There are many ways of achieving this; from simple printscreen trick on windows to using complex, dedicated programs.

Simple strategies like “hit printscreen and paste in paint” works well for most…but what to do when you need full length screenshots of a particular website? What if you need the screenshot in multiple browser screen resolutions? Are you going to switch your screen resolution everytime ? What about taking multiple screenshots ? How much is it going to cost for such an application? The answer is a completely free application : WebShot

WebShot is a completely free software program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites. It also offers a command line interface for advanced users. The PG, GIF, PNG and BMP image formats are supported. You can set the browser resolution while capturing or set it to auto. You can also load the URLs as a batch and they’d be processed and saved in the designated folder automatically. The program can also wait for a few seconds before capturing so that the page is completely loaded. Framed pages, Flash animations in pages are also supported. You need an OS from Windows 2000 onwards and MS Internet Explorer 7 is recommended as it is used by the application. The latest MS Windows Vista is also supported.

The command line version of WebShot allows you to easily generate screenshots of websites on a large scale, mainly for web based applications. It can run with PHP and IIS as a helper library to capture mass screenshots on windows servers. ColdFusion language can also be used to implement the same!

So, Download WebShot - it will be another nice addition to your software collection. It’s free, small yet functional piece of software application.