django-thummer 2.0.0

A website screenshot and thumbnailing app for Django.

A website snapshot and thumbnailing app for Django. Uses firefox, selenium, and sorl-thumbnail.

Getting started

Requirements

django-thummer requires Firefox and Xvfb. On Debian/Ubuntu systems these can be installed using:

sudo apt-get install firefox xvfb

Installation

django-thummer can be installed to your Python environment using pip:

pip install django-thummer

Then add thummer to INSTALLED_APPS in your Django settings file, and sync the database. If you’re using South, then migrations are provided.

Basic usage

from thummer.utils import get_thumbnail

thumbnail = get_thumbnail('http://www.example.com/', '400x400')

Credits

Special thanks to the sorl-thumbnail and selenium projects. Thanks also to the blog posts which originally got me thinking about the project:

• http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2011/06/python-headless-selenium-webdriver.html

• http://lapin-blanc.net/09/11/2008/django-website-thumbnail-generator/

To-do

• Snapshot error handling

• Documentation

• Template tag

• Celery tasks

• Placeholder image

• Management commands

• Tests

• Logging

• Cache redirect response?