siteshow

Automate image snapshots of a managed list of websites for full screen, rotated display in browser.

Note: This project is currently a work in progress.

The Idea

The usage of this app is pretty much as follows:

• Using an admin front end, add a list of websites (name and URL), along with the options to set order and enable/disable.
• A cron job collates this list (using a predetermined limit), and saves an image snapshot of each URL.
• Hitting the index page of the site displays a full screen version of each site image, rotating through the list based on predefined duration and ordering options.

Config

The following config options are available:

• Display delay
• Fetch limit
• Page list limit
• Overwrite files y/n
• Fetch window width
• Fetch window height
• Dismiss dialogues y/n
• Wait until network idle y/n
• Fetch delay
• Image save path

Database

users

• name
• email
• password
• user_permissions_fk
• token & timestamps

user_permissions

• permssion
• timestamps

pages

• name
• url
• status (disabled or enabled)
• duration (global default or seconds)
• image path
• rank
• timestamps

options

• option_name
• option_value
• timestamps

fetch_logs (cron job results)

• started
• finished
• duration
• output (JSON)
• timestamps

Front End

An AJAX request will fetch website data:

• where status is enabled
• ordered by list order
• using all option settings

The returned JSON will be interated through, showing a full screen image of each item in the list, cycling to the next based on the delay value set.

Back End

A cron job will hit the list of sites (bound by global fetch limit), to create a data object that can be inserted to the sites and log tables.

Admin

An admin frontend is provided to allow:

• CRUD functions for the website list
• Draggable functionality to set ordering
• A search facility to locate previously added websites
• Pagination
• User management (admins)
• Global configuration (admins)