Automated Screen Capture

I was wondering, can anyone think of a way of automating a method of obtaining a screen capture for a list of websites? E.g. let's say I have a list of URLs and I want to get a screen capture of each webpage, does anyone know how I might go about doing it quickly?
The only way I could think of doing it was using the Robot package to swtich to a web browser, take a screen capture, and then process the image.... I was just wondering if anyone could think of a neater way of doing it?
many thanks
BBB

you said "I'm guessing java wouldn't be the best way to go. "
I'm under the impression that java can do everything. The trick might be to find out how to do it.
I
'll propose one really bad and slow way to do it.
There is already a swing component that will translate HTML code (that was gathered) into the actual web page.
Now I believe there is a Robot API that will perform clicks of the keyboard and mouse and simulate an actual user at the computer.
In this case , you could make it simulate the buttons to do a print screen .
You could use the robot API to make it paste the result some place and do whatever transformations and saving of the object needed.
I realize this is a bad way to do it because it is so slow. But it is automated.
However I am under the impression there is a way to do this effectively and very fast with java.
I'm guessing it would be using the new nio package in java 1.4
stephen

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