📷 📺 thumbnail.ws - New, Better and Faster rendering

New, Better and Faster rendering

Published: Tuesday, June 16th 2015.

After a couple of weeks of development thumbnail.ws is proud to show our new rendering engine. For most websites you will only notice that the screenshots are generated much faster. For some more modern website we now can generate a valid screenshot. You do not have to change anything in your API call to activate this new engine. Let us know what your experiences with the updated engine are: your feedback is as always highly appreciated.

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SOAP error fixed (Friday, September 4th 2015)
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Twitter - thumbnailbot (Friday, June 12th 2015)
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Secure Connections (Wednesday, June 10th 2015)
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Dedicated servers (Tuesday, June 9th 2015)
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5 Concurrent threads (Tuesday, June 2nd 2015)
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Available on Mashape! (Tuesday, February 3rd 2015)
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1,000,000! (Friday, January 30th 2015)
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