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- Https for free account (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 ...
- Alexa top 500 showcase (Sunday, April 17th 2016)
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 used and visited websites around the world and thumbnail.ws will use it to showcase the quality of our API. On the Alexa Top 500 page you can ...
- 10,000,000! (Tuesday, April 5th 2016)
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 milestone: ...
- Maximum width: 1280px (Thursday, October 15th 2015)
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 test this feature for yourself try out our screenshot maker at https://thumbnail.ws/make.html or set the width parameter in your API calls to ...
- New API parameter: delay (Friday, October 2nd 2015)
Everytime a thumbnail.ws server is creating a screenshot or thumbnail for you, the HTML of the website is loaded, the javascript is loaded, the images are loaded and then we sit and wait for exactly 1 second to let everything pan out. This used to work for almost all sites but lately we have seen ...
- SOAP error fixed (Friday, September 4th 2015)
User Simone Abbati (a.k.a. abbakus) found a blocking error in the thumbnail.ws WSDL file. Strict WSDL parsed would not accept the WSDL file because the boolean input parameters were identified with type xsd:bool. We have changed it to xsd:boolean and all WSDL parsers we could find accepted this ...
- Showcase: ScreenshotRobot.com (Friday, July 10th 2015)
Our design team has created a brand new screenshot service, using the thumbnail.ws API. You can find the end result at screenshotrobot.com. You can use this website without a thumbnail.ws API key: just enter a URL and the desired output format and a screenshot will be generated for you on the ...
- WOFF support (Tuesday, June 30th 2015)
Gerald, user since day one, noticed the rendering of WOFF fonts was slightly off. Sometimes. But not always. Very strange. But we investigated and found the bug. After 2 days of testing and comparing screenshots manually we have released this updated version to our production cluster. All ...
- New, Better and Faster rendering (Tuesday, June 16th 2015)
After a couple of weeks of development thumbnail.ws is proud to show our new rendering engine. For most websites you will only notice that the screenshots are generated much faster. For some more modern website we now can generate a valid screenshot. You do not have to change anything in your API ...
- Twitter - thumbnailbot (Friday, June 12th 2015)
Thumbnail.ws is now on Twitter. Do you need a quick screenshot of a website you are talking about with your friends? Send a message to @thumbnailbot and the URL. ThumbnailBot will send you a screenshot ...
- Secure Connections (Wednesday, June 10th 2015)
All our webservers are now protected by an SSL certificate from RapidSSL. All communication between you and our servers will be encrypted. The thumbnail.ws website will redirect you automatically to the encrypted website. If you use our API you can still use the 'old' unencrypted ...
- Dedicated servers (Tuesday, June 9th 2015)
For power users who need dedicated resources, as much concurrent threads as possible, the fastest connections and unlimited screenshots we can install a dedicated server used only by your account and API key. Prices start at $ 199 / month. Contact us for more ...
- 5 Concurrent threads (Tuesday, June 2nd 2015)
Thumbnail.ws has installed more rendering servers to be future proof. For our free accounts this will mean screenshots will be generated faster. For our premium accounts we can now accept up to 5 concurrent requests per account. If you need to render 100 screenshot this would typically take 5 ...
- Available on Mashape! (Tuesday, February 3rd 2015)
Thumbnail.ws is now also available on Mashape. Same plans, same screenshots but if you already have an account at mashape.com you can start using our API in 3 seconds. If you do, we would like to hear your ...
- 1,000,000! (Friday, January 30th 2015)
Not too long ago we reported the 100,000th screenshot and now we can post this article: We have generated 1 million unique screenshots! The 1000000th was the homepage of Heard County, GA in the United ...
- Mobile devices screenshots (Wednesday, December 17th 2014)
For our premium users we now also offer screenshots of mobile websites. We identify ourself as an iPhone and set the width of the display to 640 pixels. If a website has a mobile version available it will deliver it to our software. See our mobile screenshot examples page for some nice examples. ...
- SOAP interface available (Wednesday, December 3rd 2014)
We already offered a HTTP-GET and HTTP-POST interface and now we have put a SOAP interface online. You can find sample code on our API documentation ...
- 100,000! (Wednesday, October 22nd 2014)
In just a couple of days we have generated over 100,000 screenshots. You can see the current counter on our homepage. In case you are wondering what the 100,000th screenshot looks like: it is the homepage of ...
- Launch! (Wednesday, October 8th 2014)
We are very proud to announce tumbnail.ws. Where "ws" stands for web service. Thumbnail.ws offers a simple and easy to implement thumbnail web service. Enter a URL in the form on our homepage to see the thumbnail or screenshot generator in action. We offer the service free of charge. The ...
