WEBGRAB(1)

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version 1.5.8 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ WEBGRAB — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning webgrab together and honestly? it's giving screenshot the entire internet energy. this is the webgrab(1) page, rewritten with love 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

webgrab — capture a snapshot of a web page 📸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

webgrab [OPTIONS] URL OUTFILE [...]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it a URL, you give it an outfile, you get a picture of a website. no cap. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea, bestie: webgrab loads a page from the web (you know, the one you specify with URL) and renders it to a local file. the format of that file is decided by its file name — so name it good, because that's literally the only thing controlling the output type, iykyk. 👑

right now the supported formats are pdf, jpg, png, and many other bitmap file formats — but only on Linux 🐧. on Mac and Windows, it's pdf only. like, that's it. that's the whole menu. tragic, honestly. 😭

the good news? this discrepancy is gonna get fixed once Qt's QWebEngine technology matures. so it's not forever, it's just... for now. 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -p — tells it the output should be split into pages. 💅 valid for pdf output only, so don't come crying to me if you try it on a png.
  • -t, -s, -m, -l, -h — these bad boys set how big your output images are: tiny, small, medium, large, or huge. which, translated into actual pixels, is 160, 320, 640, 1280, or 2560 pixels wide respectively. pick your fighter. 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

there may be bugs. not "there are definitely bugs", not "there are no bugs" — may be. so if one bites you 🦋, please contact the author. they want to know. fr fr.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Daniel Wagenaar <daw@caltech.edu>, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology. https://www.danielwagenaar.net.

absolute legend, tbh. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

lowkey reminder: everything above is straight from the original page, just with ✨flavor✨. don't @ me if you ignore the -p pdf-only thing, that one's on you bestie 😭

this has been webgrab, version dated 03/26/2023, from the WEBGRAB(1) manual — mwah, go screenshot something pretty 💅✨

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