Website Screenshots Generator, please test

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Website Screenshots Generator, please test

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Hello,

recently I released my new project, named webthumbnail.org.
Basically it is an online website screnshot generator with webapi that allows to integrate it with any other website without almost any effort.

The front website is available at http://webthumbnail.org
and the api at: http://api.webthumbnail.org

The idea how it works is very simple. When you request a screneshot then the url is added to the queue. After that one of the robots is taking the task, running a real browser and making the screenshot.
Currently there are three browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Images are available in three formats: png, jpg, gif. The tool can make screenshots from 70x70 up to 2048x4096 pixels.

All you need to do to use this tool is to put something like this in html code:

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<img src="http://api.webthumbnail.org?width=512&height=512&format=png&browser=firefox&url=http://forums.devnetwork.net/" alt="Captured by webthumbnail.org" />
At https://github.com/cepa/webthumbnail there is a PHP wrapper class for this api, so its possible to make a screenshot directly from php, like this:

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$thumb = new Webthumbnail("http://forums.devnetwork.net");
$thumb
    ->setWidth(512)
    ->setHeight(512)
    ->captureToFile($path);
This project is still beta, so there are a lot of improvement work going on.
Could you take a look and try to test it? I would appreciate any help :)

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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