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+# http2pic
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+## Introduction
+http2pic is an Open Source website renderer. It uses the [wkhtmltox](https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf) to render websites with various options.
+
+Live demo on https://http2pic.haschek.at/
+
+## Dependencies
+- [wkhtmltox](http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html)
+- "timeout" command
+
+## Install
+
+- Install [wkhtmltox](http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html) on your server
+- Make /usr/sbin/wkhtmltoimage executable for the user that runs the webserver. For Apache it's the ```www-data``` user. Or use sudo
+- Make sure the server has the "timeout" command. For debian this is available via ```apt-get install coreutils```
+- Download this repo and extract it somewhere on your webserver
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