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agriz
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Post by agriz »

Hi,

There are some topic already available for this. But they are pretty old. I expect i can get an api from top websites at this time.

I need a screenshot of a website.
In my website, For the links, I am taking manual screenshots.

There are some open source out there but they need dedicated server.
* I just saw in google results, google is displaying the screenshot of website.
* Google toolbar installation gives recent websites thumbnail
Can i use googles api to get thumbnail of a website?
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greyhoundcode
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Well I can't remember the name of it, but I can certainly remember looking at a service not dissimilar to browsershots.org, basically you used an XML based API to submit target and callback URLs, and in due course a screengrab is returned to your application. Wasn't free though. Do some searching and you might hit on it, if it is still around of course. :wink:
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