PyThumbnail is a Python script that uses Gecko (Firefox’s rendering engine) to generate a thumbnail of a web page. It is headless, meaning you can call it from the command-line or from another program and it doesn’t require a running X server.

A common programming problem: identify the URLs in an arbitrary string of text, where by “arbitrary” let’s agree we mean something unstructured such as an email message or a tweet.

PyThumbnail is a Python script that uses Gecko (Firefox’s rendering engine) to generate a thumbnail of a web page. It is headless, meaning you can call it from the command-line or from another program and it doesn’t require a running X server.