Thumbnails and screenshots

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There is no thing as a free service! Well there is but we limit the total available resources for free accounts. If you would like to sponsor one or more servers let us know!

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Unlimited screenshots in real time in all the formats you can think of. Even mobile screenshots are available. Get your trial API key now.

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We needed to get real time screenshots of 10,000 websites. One simple implementation of an API call to thumbnail.ws was all we needed to build. Simon Hobert, CTO at linkorado

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Https for free account

Published: Friday, September 8th 2017.

Starting today, free accounts can now create screenshots of https websites too. You do not have to change anything in your settings.

Alexa top 500 showcase

To show off our new rendering engine, introduced on April 12th, we created screenshots of all the Alexa top 500 websites. This is a list of the most ...

10,000,000!

While working on brand new features, we passed the 10 million mark a couple of days ago! Congrats to everybody at thumbnail.ws and all our users! Next ...

Maximum width: 1280px

The maximum width of a screenshot we returned was set at 1024 pixels. Thumbnail.ws has increased this limit to 1280px for all accounts. If you want to ...

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