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Published: 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 back.

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Alexa top 500 showcase (Sunday, April 17th 2016)
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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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