http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ thumbalizr Supportforum Forum: Official news en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:14:47 +0000 http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-118 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:30:41 +0000 charlene 118@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>I agree with you.</p> <p>____________<br /> <a href="http://www.stajump.com">cheap NFL jerseys</a>online shop<br /> Find the jerseys you need to support your idol. </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=48&page#post-116 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:00:18 +0000 skacco 116@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>moved to <a href="http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=49&#38;page&#38;replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=49&#38;page&#38;replies=1</a> </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=41&page#post-102 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:35:15 +0000 eelco369 102@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>HI there,<br /> I am trying out different screenshot services and so far am liking Thumbalizr very much.<br /> However I have a question concerning the used API request/hits/credits whatever it's called.</p> <p>Is there any way to tell how much requests I've made so far? (the API stats page doesn't show anything (included at bottom).<br /> Btw Im a standard API user.<br /> many thanks in advance.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Eelco</p> <p>Select Month: 02-200901-200912-200811-200810-200809-200808-200807-200806-200805-200804-200803-2008 </p> <p>Total API hits:<br /> Total API requests:<br /> Total API refresh requests:<br /> Total API processing failed:<br /> Total API records purged: </p> <p>Currently stored API pictures: 0 </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=40&page#post-101 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:40:29 +0000 admin 101@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>the api is not designed to support realtime services like we have on our website. Please ask for a quote of thumbalizr dedicated services via email (info at thumbalizr dot com) </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=40&page#post-100 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:30:45 +0000 abhibharti 100@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Can I use thumbalizr API for creating my own thumbnail creating website similar to Thumbalizr?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=1&page#post-94 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:20:52 +0000 tzgordon 94@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Greetings,</p> <p>We're trying out the API (the web version was ok, but we wanted a local cache). So here's the question.. I downloaded and unpacked the files and have an API keynow what.. how do I impliment it? </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=36&page#post-93 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:44:28 +0000 mptre 93@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hi there,<br /> Sorry to hear. I'm in desperate need for a service like thumbalizr. I started the implementation of their api, even did some improvements to their php-class. But since the service seems broken and the developers are far gone I think I'll pass on this one to.</p> <p>Are there any services like thumbalizr out there with an API? </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=36&page#post-92 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:29:36 +0000 akacayman 92@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>It was a pretty nice service, but it doesn't work anymore as fine as it did few months ago.</p> <p>Please, contact me once you fix that and we'll use it again.</p> <p>Thx in advance </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-91 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:52:56 +0000 akacayman 91@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>problems again and still no response from u ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-90 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:17:33 +0000 akacayman 90@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>don't know if my post has affected anything, but today thumbalizr works just awesome. i wish it'd work everyday so well!</p> <p>thx a lot </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-89 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:04:12 +0000 akacayman 89@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>and if it's possible we can run your script from our server. maybe it'll solve the problem </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-88 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:20:20 +0000 akacayman 88@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>i'm really sorry for bagging you, but we are experiencing troubles in work with thumbalizr. i like it and i'd like to continue work with you guys, but we get too many fails these days. please let me know if i can expect some improvement.</p> <p>i'm silver package subscriber.</p> <p>i'm waiting for mail respond from you</p> <p>thx </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-86 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:15:38 +0000 akacayman 86@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>sorry, didn't see this post before i mailed you again.</p> <p>will resend it to info@ </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=33&page#post-84 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:31:02 +0000 ederpardeiro 84@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Good night,</p> <p>I am brasiliam and my english is bad, but i try will explain my question.</p> <p>I receive the key in my adressess mail, but i do not know how use in my pages.</p> <p>I use ASP.</p> <p>I Wait answers... </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-83 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:40:56 +0000 admin 83@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hi akacayman,</p> <p>please send to info@ ... of course my business email is working too.</p> <p>Regards<br /> Alex </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=30&page#post-82 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:39:19 +0000 admin 82@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Yes, we're in business.<br /> Currently, we're pretty busy with other projects.</p> <p>We'll focus on thumbalizr soon.</p> <p>Regards<br /> Alex </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=30&page#post-77 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:10:52 +0000 zpinhead 77@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>There seem to be lots of posts with no responses.<br /> Is thumbalizr still in business???<br /> I'd like to sign up for an account, but </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=29&page#post-76 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:15:29 +0000 akacayman 76@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>just got 3 fail delivery reports from your mailbox </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=26&page#post-73 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:51:55 +0000 wll6568 73@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Apparently, I am doing it like getimage.php?url=http://www.google.com, and then basically use what was in index.php in getimage.php. I want to know how to save a copy of the image to local. </p> <p>I have turned the cache on but seems like only very very very few of them get saved. Is there a way to just save a copy to local and use them? </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=25&page#post-71 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:27:32 +0000 nayanlodha 71@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>i am not able to cache the web page and some times even api does not work </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=20&page#post-61 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:44:40 +0000 jayridge 61@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hi. I can't seem to figure out the rate limits for the different service levels. Everything on the premium service page uses abbreviations I am not familiar with.</p> <p>For, example:<br /> "extend s"<br /> "Requests p.m."</p> <p>So, what are the request limits for image generation for premium accounts?</p> <p>Thank you.<br /> Jay </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=17&page#post-51 Tue, 27 May 2008 16:38:15 +0000 admin 51@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>there're two ways using the api ... first, simply add the key to your get request e.g. <a href="http://api.thumbalizr.com/?url=www.something.net&#38;api_key=yourapikey" rel="nofollow">http://api.thumbalizr.com/?url=www.something.net&#38;api_key=yourapikey</a></p> <p>second way is to use our PHP script provided at "api &#38; tools" after signing in.</p> <p>check for a list of available parameters here : <a href="http://api.thumbalizr.com" rel="nofollow">http://api.thumbalizr.com</a> </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=17&page#post-50 Tue, 27 May 2008 12:57:59 +0000 pavithrap 50@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>how to access the thumbnail screenshot url using the api key provided. i have tried the ordinary one. how to do with the api key provided </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-47 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:29:39 +0000 admin 47@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>2. Fixed </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-46 Mon, 19 May 2008 12:26:34 +0000 admin 46@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>1. yes, you're right.<br /> 2. it looks like a problem while generating the final output file. Our source file is similar to your firefox values. I'll check this. </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-45 Sat, 17 May 2008 13:18:50 +0000 user 45@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>thank you for your responses, and I have 2 other questions.</p> <p>here - <a href="http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=11&#38;page&#38;replies=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=11&#38;page&#38;replies=2</a> - you state that you are using the IE engine, my first question is "why?" (just curious, as why IE and not something open source, but I guess it's for the (low) number of websites that only work in IE?).</p> <p>Second question is, I've been doing some tests and, well, just take this two examples, in each one, I took a full-page screenshot of a web page, first with the "Pearl Crescent Page Saver" extension for firefox, and then with thumbalizr. My screen resolution is 1280x1024, so that's what I chose in thumbalizr too (1280). The shots have a slight difference in dimensions, maybe it has something to do with how IE and firefox are seeing them, but I have to say that thumbalizr's shot is worse, fonts look all jagged, whereas in firefox, they look smooth, and somethings are differently aligned (although I have to take firefox's side on this one, because it looks the same as in opera). The other real killer, is file size. I'll post file sizes and dimensions for both, so you can see they are not that different.</p> <p>website - <a href="http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks" rel="nofollow">http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks</a><br /> Firefox - 1264x6905 - 644KB<br /> Thumbalizr - 1280x7574 - 28MB (28488KB)</p> <p>website - <a href="http://www.storylog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.storylog.com/</a><br /> Firefox - 1264x2895 - 248KB<br /> Thumbalizr - 1280x3161 - 12MB (11896KB)</p> <p>and yes, all sizes are correct, "KB" and "MB" are meant to be where they are, the somewhat big difference in heights can probably be explained by the way each browser is rendering alignments and etc, because both show the whole page, no information is being lost. My question, is what is thumbalizr doing to create so much bigger file sizes? </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-44 Fri, 16 May 2008 07:02:44 +0000 admin 44@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>ok, I see we're not far away each other ....<br /> Thanks for your feedback .</p> <p>The lifetime for images (source and thumbs) is max 1 week. After this time, we'll decide to recapture or purge the website. There're scripts to optimize storage and in combination with expiration headers and the PHP local cache script, we should be able to optimize our bandwith too. </p> <p>One reason why we have released the API key is to avoid spamming and identify malicious requests. We'll tie api keys to IP addresses and get away from the referer - since they can be hidden or modified. </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-43 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:31:02 +0000 user 43@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>"the free sign up makes you able to shoot png pictures online but not with API"<br /> that was my mistake (wrong resolution), and I apologise for it</p> <p>"you can calculate the cost with a cool (free for windows users) tool called "calc""<br /> should I assume you know I'm not running windows? there's also a better way than that, and free on any operating system, called "google calculator"</p> <p>"I would prefer SnagIT"<br /> almost everyone would prefer snagit, but it's not free, and I only talked about cost free options</p> <p>"upload your shot and save costs"<br /> would be glad to, but I don't really see how uploading my shot would save you any noticeable bandwidth, and the time it would take for me to know someone wants a shot of a webpage and which, taking it, and uploading it, the user would have time to draw the page by hand</p> <p>"or use any familiar web-service solutions. (They've already been bought by someone with a big wallet)."<br /> and should I assume here you thought I was being sarcastic? I really wish this service the best of luck, you have (for an online service), something most don't have, full-page support, and that is a big plus</p> <p>"If you run low budget, why don't you take low quality ... check famous video portals ... they're all serving in low quality ...<br /> MP3 downloads are announced as Mobile-Downloads ..."<br /> well, I hate all of those (because of the low quality), but I can see your point for the average internet user</p> <p>"Maybe we'll provide better quality for non-paid users within our API ... but only if we can make sure that no one is reselling or abuse our services."<br /> fair enough</p> <p>"Currently, we've tons of requests asking for PDF, MP3 and maliciuos websites ... What do you think how this should be handled ?"<br /> automated script, website blacklisted, temporary ip-ban of user</p> <p>Another thing, do people that do a full-page capture, 1280 pixels wide, really need the 'thumbnail' online for long? And does the same page get requested so often in a short period that it would compensate storing it for long periods? And how do you do your storage? Having the user select the page width _before_ thumbnailing it wouldn't be able to save some [storage]? </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-42 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:36:09 +0000 admin 42@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>You're right ... we're not google ...</p> <p>It's all about bandwith and storage ... png are bigger than jpg. 80% jpg is bigger than 100% jpg. We don't want to get X billions ... we just want to get out of minus.</p> <p>As you can see ... the free sign up makes you able to shoot png pictures online but not with API .... </p> <p>If we held 80.000+ pictures and the corresponding thumbnails - and users (webmasters) are not using local cache - and we'll shot the page every x days .... you can calculate the cost with a cool (free for windows users) tool called "calc". </p> <p>Use alt + print screen '( I would prefer SnagIT), upload your shot and save costs .... or use any familiar web-service solutions. (They've already been bought by someone with a big wallet). </p> <p>If you run low budget, why don't you take low quality ... check famous video portals ... they're all serving in low quality ...<br /> MP3 downloads are announced as Mobile-Downloads ... do you think this is high quality if you listen to a chart song with your mobile speaker ? </p> <p>Maybe we'll provide better quality for non-paid users within our API ... but only if we can make sure that no one is reselling or abuse our services.</p> <p>Currently, we've tons of requests asking for PDF, MP3 and maliciuos websites ... What do you think how this should be handled ? </p> <p>I'll buy a new Porsche now ... if I can make a decision for the color ......<br /> After this, I'll check my Lear-Jet if they have implemented my new entertainment system. </p> http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/topic.php?id=16&page#post-41 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:06:38 +0000 user 41@http://www.i-ssential.de/thumbalizr-forum/ <p>You have got to be kidding me, am I reading that wrong, or are you really going to charge for this, _and_ only make .pngs available to paid users? Yeah, I think I'm really gonna get a silver or gold subscription for something firefox can do for free, and in more than one way, sure thing... But hey, it only took you 3 whole months to think about really doing something in .png, and your .jpgs look even crappier than ever, maybe it's so people think it's so bad they'll pay for the service? Oh, wait, or maybe they can have the same thing for free (to some would be even easier, to other, a minor inconvenience), there are tons of free apps, and the popular "Alt + Print Screen". Like someone else on the web said "Are they waiting for Google to take over for X billion dollars when they have captured enough screenshots", I honestly wish you the best of luck with that, I really do. I can see your service is somewhat popular, and I hope it will continue flourishing, even with the 'free crappy quality' and the 'only paid good quality although there are equal solutions in programs and other websites for free' </p>