Re: Generate a thumbnail for a given link

[Fletch]

You're going to need something driving a web browser (to render the page) that you can ask to save off an image. Something like PhantomJS can do this in a headless / automated fashion. Not used it but a CPAN search does show WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS is available.

[Corion]

WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS is mostly decommissioned, due to phantomjs not being under development anymore. But you can run Chrome/Chromium headless, so there also is WWW::Mechanize::Chrome, which also is under maintenance.