On: Errant cron task yields yearlong time lapse of nytimes.com

[roadnottaken]

how do you use cron to take screenshots like this? does a browser window have to be open somewhere the whole time?

[phillmv → roadnottaken]

I used http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ . It's an amazing project that I try to use as often as possible, especially whenever a client requires pdfs.

[icebraining → roadnottaken]

"Open," yes, but not visible. You can use Xvfb[1] which does everything in memory but doesn't actually show any image.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb