[ensembl-dev] API for 'Export image' function?

Nick Langridge nickl at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Feb 13 18:12:04 GMT 2012


I should just point out that I didn't mean to advocate scraping images 
from our public websites, but this approach may be suitable if used with 
your own Ensembl mirror.

Cheers,
Nick

On 13/02/2012 15:34, Nick Langridge wrote:
> Others may know a better way, but if you don't need anything to 
> heavy-duty you could always grab the images using the export url:
> e.g.
> wget 
> http://fungi.ensembl.org/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae/Component/Location/Web/ViewBottom?r=VII:786054-786920;export=png 
>
> ..or with LWP.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> On 13/02/2012 15:27, Dan Bolser wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Through the browser I can export static images of a given region in a
>> variety of formats. Is there a programmatic way to grab static images
>> via the API or some other means? I've searched the mailing list /
>> docs, but can't turn anything up.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
>>
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