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Question

I would like to create a function in C# that takes a specific webpage and coverts it to a JPG image from within ASP.NET. I don't want to do this via a third party or thumbnail service as I need the full image. I assume I would need to somehow leverage the webbrowser control from within ASP.NET but I just can't see where to get started. Does anyone have examples?

Answer 1

Ok, this was rather easy when I combined several different solutions:
These solutions gave me a thread-safe way to use the WebBrowser from ASP.NET:
http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Get-Web-Site-Thumbnail-Image.aspx
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/b7cce396-e2b3-42d7-9571-cdc4eb38f3c1/build-a-selfcaching-asp.aspx
This solution gave me a way to convert BMP to JPG:
Bmp to jpg/png in C#
I simply adapted the code and put the following into a .cs:
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public class WebsiteToImage
{
private Bitmap m_Bitmap;
private string m_Url;
private string m_FileName = string.Empty;
public WebsiteToImage(string url)
{
// Without file
m_Url = url;
}
public WebsiteToImage(string url, string fileName)
{
// With file
m_Url = url;
m_FileName = fileName;
}
public Bitmap Generate()
{
// Thread
var m_thread = new Thread(_Generate);
m_thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
m_thread.Start();
m_thread.Join();
return m_Bitmap;
}
private void _Generate()
{
var browser = new WebBrowser { ScrollBarsEnabled = false };
browser.Navigate(m_Url);
browser.DocumentCompleted += WebBrowser_DocumentCompleted;
while (browser.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
Application.DoEvents();
}
browser.Dispose();
}
private void WebBrowser_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
// Capture
var browser = (WebBrowser)sender;
browser.ClientSize = new Size(browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width, browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom);
browser.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
m_Bitmap = new Bitmap(browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width, browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom);
browser.BringToFront();
browser.DrawToBitmap(m_Bitmap, browser.Bounds);
// Save as file?
if (m_FileName.Length > 0)
{
// Save
m_Bitmap.SaveJPG100(m_FileName);
}
}
}
public static class BitmapExtensions
{
public static void SaveJPG100(this Bitmap bmp, string filename)
{
var encoderParameters = new EncoderParameters(1);
encoderParameters.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, 100L);
bmp.Save(filename, GetEncoder(ImageFormat.Jpeg), encoderParameters);
}
public static void SaveJPG100(this Bitmap bmp, Stream stream)
{
var encoderParameters = new EncoderParameters(1);
encoderParameters.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter(System.Drawing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, 100L);
bmp.Save(stream, GetEncoder(ImageFormat.Jpeg), encoderParameters);
}
public static ImageCodecInfo GetEncoder(ImageFormat format)
{
var codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageDecoders();
foreach (var codec in codecs)
{
if (codec.FormatID == format.Guid)
{
return codec;
}
}
// Return
return null;
}
}
And can call it as follows:
WebsiteToImage websiteToImage = new WebsiteToImage( "http://www.cnn.com", #"C:\Some Folder\Test.jpg");
websiteToImage.Generate();
It works with both a file and a stream. Make sure you add a reference to System.Windows.Forms to your ASP.NET project. I hope this helps.
UPDATE: I've updated the code to include the ability to capture the full page and not require any special settings to capture only a part of it.

Answer 2

Good solution by Mr Cat Man Do.
I've needed to add a row to suppress some errors that came up in some webpages
(with the help of an awesome colleague of mine)
private void _Generate()
{
var browser = new WebBrowser { ScrollBarsEnabled = false };
browser.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true; // <--
browser.Navigate(m_Url);
browser.DocumentCompleted += WebBrowser_DocumentCompleted;
}
...
Thanks Mr Do

Answer 3

Here is my implementation using extension methods and task factory instead thread:
/// <summary>
/// Convert url to bitmap byte array
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">Url to browse</param>
/// <param name="width">width of page (if page contains frame, you need to pass this params)</param>
/// <param name="height">heigth of page (if page contains frame, you need to pass this params)</param>
/// <param name="htmlToManipulate">function to manipulate dom</param>
/// <param name="timeout">in milliseconds, how long can you wait for page response?</param>
/// <returns>bitmap byte[]</returns>
/// <example>
/// byte[] img = new Uri("http://www.uol.com.br").ToImage();
/// </example>
public static byte[] ToImage(this Uri url, int? width = null, int? height = null, Action<HtmlDocument> htmlToManipulate = null, int timeout = -1)
{
byte[] toReturn = null;
Task tsk = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser() { ScrollBarsEnabled = false };
browser.Navigate(url);
browser.DocumentCompleted += (s, e) =>
{
var browserSender = (WebBrowser)s;
if (browserSender.ReadyState == WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
if (htmlToManipulate != null) htmlToManipulate(browserSender.Document);
browserSender.ClientSize = new Size(width ?? browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width, height ?? browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom);
browserSender.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
browserSender.BringToFront();
using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(browserSender.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width, browserSender.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom))
{
browserSender.DrawToBitmap(bmp, browserSender.Bounds);
toReturn = (byte[])new ImageConverter().ConvertTo(bmp, typeof(byte[]));
}
}
};
while (browser.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
Application.DoEvents();
}
browser.Dispose();
}, CancellationToken.None, TaskCreationOptions.None, TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext());
tsk.Wait(timeout);
return toReturn;
}

Answer 4

There is a good article by Peter Bromberg on this subject here. His solution seems to do what you need...

Answer 5

The solution is perfect, just needs a fixation in the line which sets the WIDTH of the image. For pages with a LARGE HEIGHT, it does not set the WIDTH appropriately:
//browser.ClientSize = new Size(browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width, browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom);
browser.ClientSize = new Size(1000, browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Bottom);
And for adding a reference to System.Windows.Forms, you should do it in .NET-tab of ADD REFERENCE instead of COM -tab.

Answer 6

You could use WatiN to open a new browser, then capture the screen and crop it appropriately.