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We have grown rapidly in 2014. We are looking at 2015 for another record year, many new features, and more important, many more happy users. Stay tune for more updates on our service. We wish everybody a great holiday.
Best Wishes,
Julien Sobrier, Founder of Browshot
We have upgraded all desktop browsers over the last 2 weeks. Along with the support of the latest CSS3 and HTML5 elements, this upgrade brings many improvements:
You can use any desktop size, from 1x1 to 2000x2000 by specifying screen_width and screen_height in the API call.
We will continue to upgrade our browsers regularly.
Next, we will upgrade the mobile browsers. Today, our customers use just a few of the many devices we offer. In order to offer the best mobile browsers, we will focus our resources on the devices actually used. Some browsers will only be available as private instances:
Many of our users have asked us to add Internet Explorer to the list of instances available on Browshot. After many weeks of development and testing, our Internet Explorer instances are ready for public use.
First, Internet Explorer 11 is available for free. In a couple of weeks, we will add Internet Explorer 9 & 10 as premium instances.
Internet Explorer is available today for free as part of a 2-week trial. These two weeks will allow us to fix any problem with the instance before we make it available as a premium instance.
After the 2-week trial, Internet Explorer 9, 10 & 11 will be available as Premium browsers (2 credits / screenshot).
All 3 instances are native Internet Explorer browsers running on Windows 7 with the latest Flash version.
You are probably familiar with the Heartbleed bug by now. If not, there is a good read on it at http://heartbleed.com/.
We use the Linux CentOS 6.5 distribution on all our servers. It shipped with one of the vulnerable version of openSSL. Browshot has updated all of its 7 web servers to the latest openSSL version. We are not vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug anymore. If you want to check if a website is affected by this SSL vulnerability, try out http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/.
Browshot has acquired the screenshot service Thumbalizr.com. Thumbalizr is one of the oldest screenshot service still in business. It was started in 2007.
There will be no impact to the Browshot users. While Thumbalizr and Browshot will share the same platform in the coming months, Thumbalizr will use separate instances. We have added a server to the Browshot back-end to increase our capacity.
This acquisition shows the commitment of the Browshot team to be a major player in the screenshot market. We are committed to grow our business and to make Browshot your reliable partner.
Thumbalizr focuses on simplicity. The subscription-based service is going to remain the same. Thumbalizr will use the Browshot platform.
Browshot is the most powerful screenshot service. Browshot offers unique features such as automated uploads to S3, custom requests (cookies, POST data, custom JavaScript, etc.), mobile browsers like the iPhone and Android, etc.
Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any question about Browshot, Thumbalizr or the acquisition.
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Browshot is a web service to create real time web screenshots in a multitude of virtual devices, including mobile devices like the iPhone 3 & 4, iPad, Android Nexus, etc.
You can use the web dashboard, or our full-featured API.
Real time screenshots
15+ mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.
30+ desktop resolutions
Fast and reliable
Thumbnails of any size, any ratio
Full API, open-source libraries