This simple script will create web thumbnail using cutycapt console command.

I created it to add thumbnails to my bookmarks page.

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$#" != "1" ]; then
  exit
fi

# Temporary image
temp_image="$(tempfile).png"

# Output image
output_image=`echo $1 | sed s/^www\.//`

# First, second and third output_image's letters used for directory creation
first_letter=`echo ${output_image} | cut -c1`
second_letter=`echo ${output_image} | cut -c2`
third_letter=`echo ${output_image} | cut -c3`

# Output directory
output_directory="thumbnails/${first_letter}/${second_letter}/${third_letter}"

cutycapt --url=http://$1 --out=$temp_image
convert -resize 120 -crop 120x90+0+0 $temp_image $temp_image
mkdir -p $output_directory
cp ${temp_image} ${output_directory}/${output_image}.png
unlink $temp_image

My bookmarks-thumbnail.inc.tpl.php from SemanticScuttle looks like this:

$url=parse_url($address);
$host=preg_replace("/^www\./",'',$url['host']);
$image="/thumbnails/". $host[0] . "/" . $host[1] . "/" . $host[2] . "/" . $host . ".png";

if (file_exists($image)) {
  echo '<img class="thumbnail" onclick="window.location.href=\''.$address.'\'" src="/thumbnails/'. $host[0] . '/' . $host[1] . '/' . $host[2] . '/' . $host . '.png" alt="" />
}

These solutions have a couple of limitations and probably don’t need so many sub-directories, but it will be tuned over time.