Saving a web page as image

Question

As a hobby project I am exploring the ways to save a web page (HTML) as image, mostly programatically using c/c++/javascript/java. Till now I have come across the following ways:

1. Get the IHTMLElement of page body and use it to query for IHTMLElementRender and then use its DrawToDC method (Ref: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/htmlimagecapture.aspx ). But the problem is that it did not work for all the pages (mostly pages having embedded iframes).

2. Another way which i can think of is to use some web browser component and when the pages is fully loaded then capture it using BitBlt (Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183370%28VS.85%29.aspx ). But the problem is that the page I have requested may be longer than my screen size and it will not fit into the web browser component.

Any direction/suggestion to resolve above issues or an alternative approach is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you use Python, there's pywebshot and webkit2png. Both of them have some dependencies, though.

Edit: Oops, Python is not in your list of preferred languages. I'll leave this answer here anyway, because you said "mostly" and not "exclusively".