We've been working hard on the new version of Thumbalizr. There are any improvements which I will describe in more details in the next blog posts. Today, I'll focus on the 3 most obvious changes.

New website

Thumbalizr has a new home. Check it today at https://thumbalizr.com/. It's more than a new design. We want the new site to b easier to use and more complete. We will be adding more content and features in the coming weeks.

The Member section has been improved to make it easier to manage your settings and alerts (coming very soon). Your subscriptions and invoices (as PDF) are available there.

Screenshot of the new home page

Try the new website today with your current username and password. Please give us your feedback at jsobrier@thumbalizr.com or through the new contact page.

New API

We wanted to make it easier to embed screenshots directly onto any website, without having to worry about hiding your API Key. You now have a new public Embed API key and Secret key used to sign your API calls. See how it works on the new API page.

The current API is still supported and will continue to be supported. But new features will be added to the new Embed API only.

New blog

Well, you are reading it! We will be posting more regular updates to announce and explain upcoming changes. Stay tune for details on the API, pricing and more.

We have scheduled an upgrade of Thumbalizr & Browshot on Friday January 16th, 2014 at 8:30pm PST until 11:30pm PST. We expect about 30 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.

This is the first step in upgrading our database to a cluster of 3 database servers. Another maintenance window will be scheduled 2 weeks later.

We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.

Thank you for supporting Thumbalizr.

We were very happy to welcome Thumbalizr users in 2014. We spent most of the year integrating Thumbalizr into the Browshot platform. We are looking forward to 2015 to bring Thumbalizr to the next level. Stay tune for more updates on our service. We wish everybody a great holiday.

All Thumbalizr users have 50 credits to use at Browshot (use your Thumbalizr username and password). Try Browshot in 2015!

Best Wishes,
Julien Sobrier, Founder of Browshot

In order to provide a good service to all users, we are putting limits for free users. The limits are subjects to change and are displayed at https://api.thumbalizr.com/:

• Unregistered users (no API key): 8 new screenshots within 5 minutes per IP address
• Free users (with API key): 15 new screenshots within 5 minutes per API key

The large majority of users is well below these limits. There is no rate limit for silver and gold members.

Thumbalizr.com and all of its sub-domains now support HTTPS. We suggest all users to start using secure connections to protect their sessions and API key:

• https://www.thumbalizr.com/
• https://api.thumbalizr.com/
• https://api1.thumbalizr.com/

This change was made possible by the recent back-end migration.