Thank you for downloading the latest version of the Automatic Web Screenshots program.  It contains several improvements over the previous version including: 1) the ability to capture at any resolution, whether it's 640x480 to 1024x768.  The original version was limited to 800x600.  2) Well, I've rounded up all the source code and actually recompiled the thing under Delphi 7, so it should run a little faster, and I can actually make modifications.

I made this program so that you could capture automated screenshots of a website and then resize them for use as a thumbnail for archiving, making lists of sites, etc.  If you are a researcher looking to take automatic snapshots of web pages at 1 second intervals, or 10 second intervals, you can do so.  If you want to support my efforts, or get more detailed instructions, visit http://www.cherryvalley.com/ben/screenshots/.

To change the default settings for Internet Explorer's top and left position, as well as its width and height, edit the configuration.txt file.  If no such file exists, after running the program, one will.

To automate this process, write lines to a tab delimited file called screenshots.txt.  Each line should contain the URL followed by the filename it is to be saved as, followed by the width of the final image, followed by the height of the final image. 
ie.

http://www.url1.com       image1.jpeg       320     200                
http://www.url2.com       image2.jpeg       320     200                
http://www.url3.com       image3.jpeg       320     200    4                

(The last line only takes a screenshot after a 4 second delay -- this solves the problem of frames loading and not being properly saved.)

The completed screenshots will be written to a file called completed.txt.  If you are clever you can write a perl script or some other program to continuously populate screenshots.txt.