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We have scheduled an upgrade of Browshot on Friday March 6th, 2014 at 9:00pm PST until 10:00pm PST. We expect less than 5 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.
We are adding a server to our infrastructure to increase our screenshot capacity. We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.
We have scheduled an upgrade of our back-end on Friday January 24th, 2014 at 9:00pm PST until 10:00pm PST. We expect less than 5 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.
We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.
We have released the API 1.14 which includes:
All of these features were requested by our customers. Don't hesitate to contact us if you need anything.
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| Download a ZIP of all your screenshots |
It is now easy to get hundreds or thousands of screenshots from your dashboard. Upload a text file with the list of URLs (1 URL per line), choose your parameters (screenshot size, browser, etc.) and voila!
You will get a ZIP file with all the screenshots as well as a CSV file (which can be opened with a text editor or Excel) that maps each image file with its URL.
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| Request thousands of screenshots from your dashboard |
We provide an API as well to create new batch request and to track them.
While PNG is a better image format for most cases, we now offer JPEG format as well. You can specify format=jpeg in the screenshot/thumbnail API call.
You can take multiple screenshots of the same page, for example 3 screenshots every 10 seconds.
We have increased our screenshot capacity by a factor of 5 on all desktop browsers. We've made additional improvements in the rendering of mobile devices.
We have removed our CDN offering. We can offer much better prices with our distributed Browshot hosting.
>I wish everybody a happy new year. I'm sure it will be an exciting year for Browshot!
This week-end we switched for a centralized access to our server in Germany to a distributed access through UK, US, Australia and Germany.
DNS resolution time is just one parameter that makes a website faster. Here is the average RTT to resolve browshot.com (data from APM Cloud Monitor).
As expected, countries close to a new access point saw the biggest reduction in RTT.
We are working on making our architecture more distributed and more redundant.
Browshot.com has always been a distributed service, with browsers running in the US, Germany and Australia. Starting 11/23/2013, we will distribute the access to browshot.com and api.browshot.com.
Users will access browshot.com through the closest access point:
The geo-localisation will happen transparently through DNS. In the unlikely event that you will want to access browshot.com and api.browshot.com through a specific country only, you can use:
This should result in faster access to our website regardless of your location. We will phase out or CDN hosting offer in favor of the newly distributed Browshot hosting option.
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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