When we open a new tab in google chrome it shows thumbnails as this.
. Is there a way that I can also use this thumbnail facility on my html webpage such that I just pass the url's of various sites and it shows in the same manner. I can not use fixed images as the content on the websites (I wish to display as thumbnails) keeps on changing.
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If you are using WordPress, there is some information about it here
There is a plugin to download, but there is also a code example.
While it is possible to get a screenshot of a page with client side code, the Same Origin Policy will prevent you from doing it to arbitrary third party sites.
You would need to look for a server side solution to generate your screenshots. There are several tools that could help (PhantomJS and Selenium spring to mind). You would need to write a web server that you could use to pass a URL over and get a screenshot back.