Automatically capture great screenshots
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Daniel K.
Right now it's the most time consuming issue in raindrop. Many of the links I have are of login areas, then I always get the login screen, which is non-sense. Also in Europe with Cookie Consent Banners blocking most of the content the auto-generated screenshots are not really useful. Right now I have to make a screenshot of the website (thx god it's easy on Mac) then edit the bookmark, click on editing the screenshot, next click on adding image, next click to choose path, next click to add the image file from finder. So that's a hell lot of work. Please simplify, even reducing number of clicks or introducing easy drag&drop to the edit bookmark page would save a lot of time.
Sergej Filippov
How can we access full page screenshot of a bookmarked page?
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andi portmann
Sergej Filippov: fullpage screenshots would be awesome. +1
Rustem Mussabekov
complete
Now by default, if we can't get main picture of link, we create screenshot automatically.
Also you can override this (in Web, Desktop or Extension App) and see screenshots always.
Plus in Extension we now capture page locally, without server. It means captured page will be exactly like it was on your computer
Rustem Mussabekov
Merged in a post:
Capture images from private websites
Pan Hart
Often times, I need to save images from websites that requires registration for it to be accessible. When I use Raindrop to save images on this kind of sites, they fail to capture any images (because Raindrop can't access the site without an account), resulting into a broken thumbnail. Can a way to circumvent this be developed? This would be a very useful improvement.
Rustem Mussabekov
planned
In next major update of browser extension, screenshots will be greatly improved. Sorry guys
Rustem Mussabekov
Merged in a post:
better page screenshot
Rcalkay_BlueIce
seems like the screenshot of the page isn't support in most of the website
I think that when the user bookmarks the webpage, the webpage is cut into a certain size screenshot on the browser side, and the middle can be intercepted or stretched appropriately. Then sent it into the server.
This can reduce server stress and allow forgetful users to find sites that are hard to find.
And the most important: Many users (Likes me) prefer bookmarks in the web view instead of images, which are easy to find and intuitive.
Debbie Smith
As a web designer wanting to save sites for later design inspiration, a good screenshot for every site I save is a must! Its definitely something I would be willing to pay for. Please make this happen :)
Steve Palmer
+1 to that!
Ben Mack
To reduce server cost, Raindrop should capture full page directly on the client side by extensions (like what other screencapture chrome's extension did) instead of capture by server like now (many time site can't be captured by server).
This gonna be a win-win solution!
Ken Colton
Accurate and high fidelity screenshots are now more accessible than ever with Chrome/Chromium Headless especially when automated with Puppeteer.
Hopefully this has enabled a new generation of cheaper "screenshot as a service". It's definitely enabled an ecosystem of packages and even deployable, simple to scale. https://www.browserless.io/ is one of many that I found with a quick Google search.
Putting myself in your shoes, I would find whatever service optimizes for least dev / quickest to implement while still being reasonable for a pro-level subscription. This way you can at least test the waters and if no one actually finds it useful, then not a waste of resources.
Rolling your own screen capture is one of those sounds easy - is hard at volume still. Def recommend a pre-packaged deployable solution if not a service.
Cheers,
Ken
Professional Tamer of Unreliable Services that need to be integrated into a high availability system with very picky users who want to give us money but have 0 patience for downtime and plenty of other options. Associate director for verbose titles.
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