Easy screenshot of many sites.

How to take screenshots from many URLs with one click?

Use extension to Firefox: Grab Them All is a Firefox extension based on Screengrab. Difference between Grab Them All and Screengrab is that Grab Them All takes screenshot of all specifed URLs with one click.

Sites to shot have to be provided in *.txt file with URL addresses starting from http:// or https:// prefix. URLs are separated by new line.

Screenshots are saved in *.jpg or *.png files in specifed directory. File names have syntax: Base64.encode(site_url).jpg or Base64.encode(site_url).png

Grab Them All opens new window load there each site URL and take screenshot.

Installation and using GrabThemAll:
Screencast show information how to use GrabThemAll:

Download this screencast (high qulity, 6MB, OGV)

Screenshot Server
For people who need powerfull screenshot server there is modified server version of GrabThemAll.
GrabThemAll Server is an application that allows users to:

Create screenshot on server machine
Supports Windows and Linux platforms
Has Open Source licence
Can take screenshot from URL list file and screenshot of single page
Is fully customizable
And much more…

Go to GrabThemAll Server page

35 thoughts on “Easy screenshot of many sites.”

Collin Cusce September 15, 2008 at 08:39

Would you consider open sourcing this?
rzelazko Post authorSeptember 16, 2008 at 16:48

Would you consider open sourcing this?

There is repository on http://code.google.com/p/grabthemall/ and source code is there.
Ben September 29, 2008 at 16:58

Love the plugin.

Could you make it so you can set a minimum timeout in the options (so you can ensure there’s enough time to load all the ajax requests etc.)?

Ben
rzelazko Post authorOctober 28, 2008 at 16:42

Could you make it so you can set a minimum timeout in the options

I’ll try to add minimum timeout in next release
David Lee December 3, 2008 at 20:38

Awesome plugin. Is it possible to run from the command line?

-david
rzelazko Post authorDecember 10, 2008 at 12:16

Is it possible to run from the command line?

I’ll write tool taking website sceenshots from command line later.
wille December 31, 2008 at 04:28

Do you have a version that saves screenshots in a readable way? Thx
David February 3, 2009 at 23:05

Thanks for building this – I know that it will help me to keep easy backup copies of designs.
ignacio March 28, 2009 at 20:25

Hey rzelazko, I love your add-on. xD.
I use GTA to grab images that I need for my work, but, I have a problem: the website where the images are uses JS to scale them. Uhm, I got your source code, but I’m a novice on XUL & JS, could you help me?

My idea is generate an automatic click before the screenshoot to open the image in real size and then do screenshoot. Could you tell me in wich file .js add the Automaticclick(); before the screenshoot??

Thank you!
LoveIt April 22, 2009 at 21:46

Love this add-on. It has made some of the work I have to do so much easier. Everything works great but sometimes it captures just a small 1k image from the site which i think is caused when I minimize the capture window. Thank you!!
bublible May 22, 2009 at 00:29

hi, can you please add an option to manulay set COMPRESSION RATIO? you static ratio is TOO SMALL menaing created images are too blury for me (ratio around 70% would be enough)…can you?
Mohamed May 22, 2009 at 22:06

It produces black pages at times. http://www.cheetos.com for instance(even after giving the animation enough to time to load)
Hopeful July 8, 2009 at 14:57

Will you be releasing an update for FF 3.5?
rzelazko Post authorJuly 8, 2009 at 20:43

Yes. I’ll update it ASAP
Greatful July 8, 2009 at 22:58

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! AFIAK your extension is the only tool that will grab screens from a list of URLs. Keep up the great work and thank you again.
TyroneChan July 23, 2009 at 19:52

Good job!

I suggest it must to to support more report file format, such as .txt (columns separate by tab), so it will more easier to analyze.
Oops August 22, 2009 at 11:44

Many of the pages that I attempt to use this plugin to capture with a screenshot are captured with the background entirely BLACK making the screenshot unusable.
Greatful September 10, 2009 at 20:46

I have also started to get black background screenshots. Thankfully it is just the page background so I am still able to make out the rest of the image. Any thoughts why this may be happening now? Recent FF update break something?

Thanks again.
rzelazko Post authorSeptember 10, 2009 at 20:50

It is not a problem with FF, but an error in GrabThemAll. Currently I do not have enough time to fix it.
Mark October 26, 2009 at 06:51

Any hope on fixing that error with black backgrounds in the screenshots?

Thanks!
Tudor January 26, 2010 at 20:01

I use it with FF 3.5.7 and it works like a charm. A title-site_url.file_format name syntax would be great. Thank you!
Thomas April 27, 2010 at 12:00

There seems to be an issue with installation of your wonderful grab-them-all firefox extension. I am not able to install it, tried different versions of firefox (3.6.3. or 3.5.7), extension does not work.
rzelazko Post authorApril 28, 2010 at 10:25

I’ve checked GrabThemAll on FF 3.5.9 under Debian and it works fine, write me an email with detailed information what exactly doesn’t work for you.
Alex July 7, 2010 at 17:57

Hi, nice add on!

The only thing that would be awesome is the ability to select a background (e.g in such a format: background=#FFFFFF) for all screen shots.

Respect!
Jan July 11, 2010 at 08:37

Helllo,
nice plugin! Is there a way, how to tell it to grab screen from currently opened tabs? If not, would it be hard to add this feature?

Good job!
rzelazko Post authorJuly 12, 2010 at 11:18

Hi Jan,
Currently I’ve not enough time to add new features.
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Sam July 19, 2010 at 19:20

Such a great plugin, you are a life saver…thanks.
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Monty August 14, 2010 at 02:54

Terrific Plugin. The only one that does the job. I am having the black background issue too. Maybe we all could make small donations (I would love to donate) and help you find time for this excellent plugin. This is a perfect plugin, one of its kind. Thanks a lot.
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Kerry December 30, 2011 at 01:57

Hi Rafal,

Many thanks for Grab Them All
I can’t find the settings tho.
Tools does not have an EXTENSIONS section.
I’ve tried searching for the file (as indicated in the manual) but can’t find that either.
Your advice as to how to get to preferences would be much appreciated since the images are all over the place size-wise.

MANY thanks
Kerry
Roger February 18, 2012 at 10:48

Hello,

Thanks for great work.

Would it be possible to have a screenshot spider. I.e. you enter a web site (www.testscreenshotspider.com) and it will follow all links on this page, and into as many levels as you specify.

Such a function would save me a lot of time!

Thaks!
Joerg November 12, 2012 at 16:28

Hi,

I am just figuring out that there may be problems occur when coming to URLs with more then 255 chars, because most (if not all) OS have a filename-length-limitation at 255 characters.
I workarounded that by modifying the function saveScreenToFile:

filePath += fileBaseName;
if (filePath.length >= 250) {
filePath = filePath.substr(0,123) + ‘…’ + filePath.substr((filePath.length-124),123);
}

Maybe you could implement something like that in further versions. Otherwise, screenshots with that overlong filenames won’t be saved.

Best regards
Joerg
Oliver H March 18, 2013 at 12:55

great tool!
thats exactly what I was looking for
THX!