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Revision: 57501
at May 29, 2012 20:15 by Maximus1983
Initial Code 
#
# The Python that takes the screenshot
#

import GrabzItClient

#Create the GrabzItClient class
#Replace "APPLICATION KEY", "APPLICATION SECRET" with the values from your account!
grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("APPLICATION KEY", "APPLICATION SECRET")
#Take the picture the method will return the unique identifier assigned to this task
id = grabzIt.TakePicture("http://www.google.com", "http://www.example.com/GrabzItHandler.py")

#
# The GrabzItHandler file that saves the screenshot
#

import os
import cgi
import GrabzItClient

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

message = form.getvalue("message")
customId = form.getvalue("customid")
id = form.getvalue("id")
filename = form.getvalue("filename")

#Custom id can be used to store user ids or whatever is needed for the later processing of the
#resulting screenshot

grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("APPLICATION KEY", "APPLICATION SECRET")
result = grabzIt.GetPicture(id)

if result != None:
	#Ensure that the application has the correct rights for this directory.
	fo = open("images" + os.sep + filename, "wb")
	fo.write(result)
	fo.close()
	
print "Status: 200 OK"
print
Initial URL 
http://grabz.it/api/python/
Initial Description 
Capture Web Screenshots easily with the [GrabzIt ](http://grabz.it/) Python API

You will need the free [GrabzIt Code Library](http://grabz.it/api/python/download.aspx) to get started.
Initial Title 
Capture Screenshots in Python
Initial Tags 
python
Initial Language 
Python