# Dynamic thumbnail creation of a webpage

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-thumbnail-creation-of-a-webpage/191347>\
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**Created:** [June 19, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-thumbnail-creation-of-a-webpage/191347 "2006-06-19T21:10:48Z")\
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How to get Flash to take a snapshot photograph of a webpage and display it as a thumbnail? The idea is similar to that found at [http://www.hoppa.com](http://www.hoppa.com) (Firefox/Mozilla required).

I guess this would involve:  
1- load a webpage in the background (hidden)  
2- take a printScreen snapshot of that page  
3- rescale and compress image  
4- display the image in movie

I haven’t come across any useful examples on the net…  
Do you know if Flash can do at least steps 1+2 ?:h: Or any other creative solution…

As an alternative, can I load a webpage in a Flash movieclip, with the site (text and imgs) scaled down to 10% ?

I hope this doesn’t involve:  
-using any other language than Flash, except JavaScript