Built for Prémio Arquivo.pt 2018, with Journalism++ Porto and shortlisted as one of the final 6 projects. Watch the application Presentation video (in portuguese).
Or the final Jury presentation (in portuguese).
Timelapse examples:
Requires:
- imagemagick
- ffmpeg
- mini_magick (Ruby gem)
Install the Ruby gem mini_magick:
make gem_install
Install everything in macOS:
make macos_install
To run:
make run
Notes:
- settings are located in
app.rb. - if a website has thousands of entries in Arquivo.pt, it will take a few hours to generate the video. You can keep an eye on the progress via the terminal output.
The bottleneck is downloading the webpage's screenshots, as they are generated on demand.