Monday, September 8, 2008

Making URLs look memorable

Bluga.net WebThumb provides a white-label web service API for generating web thumbnails and full size snapshots of websites.

WebThumb offers more features and quicker response times then any other service.
  • Real-time thumbnails
  • Flash 9 Support
  • PDF Support
  • Quick response times
  • REST API
  • API clients for PHP, Ruby, Python
  • Cache the thumbnails on your server or Webthumbs
  • Browser windows from 75x75 to 1280x2048
RubyGem for webthumb

Webthumb is a service to create thumbnails from websites (descriptive name, isn’t it…). It creates different sized thumbnails by default and you can request custom sizes.It offers an API to access it’s services and we wrapped up some code i wrote while on vacation and bundled it as a gem.The code is still a bit clumsy (as i wrote it on vacation :-) ) but it works nice for us. There is already another ruby wrapper for the API but it is not available as a RubyGem and does not expose some of the latest webthumb functionalities so we decided to write our own library. Josh gave us some extra credits so we could develop the API. Thanks. The gem is available on Simplificator’s github repo.

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