No luck with Girafa or Websnapr ? Try thumbnails from Artviper !

[liotier]

I don't like Websnapr's watermark and for a yet unknown reason the Girafa service stopped working for me. So I switched to Artviper's page thumbnailing service.

Here is how I use it in my template :

PHP Code:

<img src="http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?url={$url_short}&amp;sdx=1024&amp;sdy=768&amp;w=128&amp;h=96&amp;&amp;q=90"
style="float:left;margin-left:62px;margin-right:16px;margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:60px;border:1px
solid #D8B93B;" alt="{$url_short}" height="96" width="128" /> 


You can see the modification live in the slightly adapted Yget I use.

[kiaso]

I use webshot for my pligg site Poll-O / Published News

You can find the details here Website Screenshot Generator | Kishore Asokan

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://webshot.in/thumbshot/getshot.php?url=http://kishoreasokan.com"></script>

You can adjust the size of the screenshot also

[walterb]

I found out the the girafa thumbnails service is the most relaible. I am using it now in a few of my directory pages and it is free and great. You can sign up for their free service at http://www.girafa.com/free

[liotier]

Originally Posted by walterb

I found out the the girafa thumbnails service is the most relaible.

It is very reliable until you hit the ceiling of 2000 requests a day. Then it's game over or you have to pay.

[walterb]

Girafa are giving 2000 free images a day for free, which is very nice of them, if you want to upgrade and get more images - as I did, you will pay 20$ for the package. Thatls a great ROI.

[liotier]

Originally Posted by walterb

Girafa are giving 2000 free images a day for free, which is very nice of them, if you want to upgrade and get more images - as I did, you will pay 20$ for the package. Thatls a great ROI.

I am not criticizing Girafa's offering - they are of course free to set their price. But as I am providing a free service with no advertising, I prefer to use services free of any cost.

If some day I can't find any service providing that, then I'll consider building my own. But the prospects of dealing with khtml2png and its dependancies on KDE, a virtual X session server side and Imagemagick post-production are not very enticing.

[walterb]

As I am not a techie guy I prefer usung a technology for 'dummies': cut and paste a code and there you go - you have thumbnails

Well thats my two cents for this subject

[cadec]

I am a novice to file to be modified in order to see my pictures

[Delirium]

Originally Posted by liotier

I don't like Websnapr's watermark and for a yet unknown reason the Girafa service stopped working for me. So I switched to Artviper's page thumbnailing service.

Here is how I use it in my template :

PHP Code:

<img src="http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?url={$url_short}&amp;sdx=1024&amp;sdy=768&amp;w=128&amp;h=96&amp;&amp;q=90"
style="float:left;margin-left:62px;margin-right:16px;margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:60px;border:1px
solid #D8B93B;" alt="{$url_short}" height="96" width="128" /> 


You can see the modification live in the slightly adapted Yget I use.

where exactly i must add this?

[fredericd]

Originally Posted by liotier

It is very reliable until you hit the ceiling of 2000 requests a day. Then it's game over or you have to pay.

Reliable ????

I just registered an account with them and I can't get any website, picture and video thumbnails .

I build my URL just like they instructed me:

http://scst.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?i=<client ID>&s=<signature>&r=<site URL>

It doesn't work.....

I planned to purchase their service in the eventuality I get more then 2000 impression...
But now I don't think so !