HOWTO: Integrate Free Website Screenshot Thumbnails into your search or links pages

We have opened up our screenshot generation system to the world!
If you are a developer and would like to add website screenshots to your application, we provide a free service to generate screenshots of urls.

Using WebShotsPro.com's Free Screenshot API

It is extremely easy to add these screenshots to your app. All you have to do is prepend our address to the URL you want a screenshot of.

For example, if you want to display a screenshot of http://webshotspro.com on your website, links list, blog, or forum posting, all you have to do is display the following image url:

http://thumbs.webshotspro.com/url/http://webshotspro.com



You will notice that any url will work, not just root domain names. If we do not have a screenshot of the url you are requesting, it is added to the queue and will get updated shortly.

Please note that this is a free service and we will do our best efforts to keep these images functioning. All images displayed through this api have been cached to ensure speedy delivery. All IPs are logged and anyone found abusing the service or submitting inappropriate urls will be banned from using the system.

For more advanced screenshot generation options, cache control, custom error graphics, and large scale screenshot integration you must register for an account or contact us to discuss one of our membership plans.

Please let us know what you think, and if there is anything else we can add to make this more useful.

-WebShotsPro Admins

 

Nice tool!!!

 

wow, very original, has potential

 

very cool, with loot's of different sizes, very good job.

 

Great system. I've been looking for something like this for some time.

 

Thanks for all of the positive feedback! As a webmaster myself I had been searching for something like this for a long time. I could not find a reliable way to incorporate screenshots into my website, so this is what we created.

It can not be any easier...
To get a screenshot all you need to do is make a link to an image url:

<img src="http://thumbs.webshotspro.com/url/http://anyurl.com">

Code (markup):

There are other sites that provide thumbnails, but few give users the ability to dynamically generate a screenshot from any url or provide an open api like ours.

Please tell your fellow webmasters about our service.

 

how do i get a larger size thumbnail ? > 100x75

I already have my token...

 

The thumbnail sizes are adjustable in the upcoming members area.

We have also released a script that will allow webmasters to easily add screenshots thumbnail rollovers to their links. All they need to do is add a single line of javascript to thier page.

Check it out here, on the webmaster resource page:
http://www.webshotspro.com/webmasters.php

 

This worked like a charm. Thank you!