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opengovernment / askthem

Monitor and interact with local governments in the United States
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export a screenshot of every elected officials' profile page in the app? #120

Closed davidmooreppf closed 11 years ago

davidmooreppf commented 11 years ago

Just wondering - this isn't vital - on the outreach / marketing side, goal is to include a screenshot of elected official's profile page in individual outreach emails to them, to get them to sign up.

Does there exist a Rails plugin or simple solution for taking a screenshot of every page in the app, specifically person profile pages,

... then uploading to Dropbox, either with or without a unique ID attached so that we could match email addresses w/ screenshots? There can be some manual clicking in here, that's fine.

Wonder if you know any solutions, @walter @derekeder @acacheung.

I know a lot of city electeds & exec branch electeds (state & city) aren't loaded into the app, so this would primarily be for federal members of Congress & state legislators at first.

walter commented 11 years ago

What we use for interacting with things in our automated integration tests has the ability to take screenshots (PhantomJS). I've heard people use it as a "crawler" as well to capture full text of JavaScript only web apps (thus leaving a Google crawlable copy of the site).

I imagine we can put something together to do it, but it will take a little bit of work.

If anyone knows of a service that does this, it might be a cheaper option compared to the labor necessary.

davidmooreppf commented 11 years ago

Good to know - customizing a crawler is not priority now - unless anyone else knows a service / other solution.

walter commented 11 years ago

Moving this to a product issue (opengovernment/product#9).