通过php从谷歌获取网站图片

Question

I'm working on a website for a specific client. And he wants to be able to add link to the website, and on mouse hover to have a image of that website appear. Now, he doesen't want to take an image of the website, he only wants to input the link and have the website do everything else.

So my question is ->

Is there a way (eg. google API) to get a website image only by providing the url via php? Sort of like in google, when you hover over a lik of a page, a tooltip pops up to the right with an image. Any help is, as always, appriciated :)

Answer 1

Here is a list of 10 free thumbnail services

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/10-free-website-thumbnail-generation-services/

You can simply refer to the URLs of these services, e.g.

<img src="http://SnapCasa.com/Get.aspx?code=[code]&size=[size]&url=[url]" />

or make a CURL call from one of your PHP scripts and temporarily store/permanently save the image that was generated.