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Website Screenshots services

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Since web galleries and social bookmarking sites are really popular these days you probably wondered how they are getting instant screen shots of web pages. So here's the list of some websites that are offering these kind of services which you can use if you are planing to start a web gallery for example, instead of doing it all by yourself (cutting, slicing etc..)

If you think I have missed any please let me know. And just a quick tip, i'm planing to write a tutorial for those kind of sites in some of my next posts so subscribe ;)

Alexa Site Thumbnail



The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa's large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl. Service Highlights: Ease of use, Broad and expanding image collection, Responsive and Multi-size access.

Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost. $0.0002 / thumbnail returned (i.e. $0.20 per 1,000 thumbnails). No charge if the thumbnail does not exist. http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=236156011

Websnapr



Websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness. It's really easy to use with single line of code just replace url, size and key to make the magic happen. You can get up to 4 different sizes by setting the size parameter.

It's free of charge but you have small watermark on screenshot. There's also Premium service for customized screenshots starting at $45 for 500,000 delivered snaps per month. So only remark for now is that they don't have pay just for the ones you got like amazon, but do check out their plugins for Drupal, Wordpress and other. http://www.websnapr.com/

webshot.in



Webshot.in is free service but the first time till the webshot is generated you get an advertisement displayed. It's also really ease to use but this time you need to include small JavaScript also with 4 four different images sizes to suit your needs. Example of code looks like this

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



After reading their FAQ page it looks really nice and professional and they gave good description how the process itself works so if you want to do something like this you should read this first. The screenshot generators capture the screenshots using Microsoft Internet Explorer and capture at browser size 1024x768px and resized to 640x480px and Active-x and JavaScript has been desabled. Prices start from $5 for 25, 000 per month. www.webshotspro.com

websiteshots.com



The last one i have found is websiteshots.com I had some difficulties getting it work but i guess it works (by the recent screenshots in sidebar). In their words: Use this as a web service to grab website screenshots for whatever you need. Choose from the following easy REST interfaces and you'll get back either a bit of XML or JSON containing the following screenshot URLs with the given dimensions. Free of charge with small watermark. http://websiteshots.com/

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By bnjmn
on November 11, 2009

based on their look only first two seams professional to me

By gekko g
on August 11, 2009

thank you ver good good

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on June 3, 2009

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By rapindir rap indir
on February 7, 2009

global service thank u;)

By şiir
on January 5, 2009

thank you.

By Brandon
on August 10, 2008

Don’t forget http://www.shrinktheweb.com. ;)

Our service is free for 99% of users and we offer more PRO features (affordably) than all competitors combined. If you want a comprehensive list for your readers, please consider adding our service to your review.

Best regards,

Brandon

By Dejan Cancarevic
on June 9, 2008

Frank,
didn’t know about it, looks good, thanks ;)

By Frank
on June 9, 2008

The best site without a doubt is http://www.siteshotz.com!

By Ryan D.
on June 8, 2008

I don’t use an service to take my shots…I could but none of them do what I want so I use my own methods. :)

http://www.inspirationfolder.com

By MJ
on June 4, 2008

websnapr is reliable but snapshots have a watermark and it also displays an ad on your site when the snapshot is in queue. Snapcasa is a better solution becuase it is faster, just as reliable, free and does not have any watermarks or ads.

By Justin Hernandez
on May 26, 2008

Great article thanks. I just signed up for websnapr.com.

By Jacksonville
on May 24, 2008

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

By DeeJay - Music Blog
on May 9, 2008

Nice collection. Thanks!

By Dejan
on May 6, 2008

Looks good where do you find this stuff ;)
To bad it’s not in English but i will test it and ad it on this post, thanks man!

By ADSL
on May 6, 2008

OoO I’ve got a new one, a french solution launched yesterday : http://thumbs.miwim.fr/

Its forces : it’s totally free, it can capture internal pages (like artviper), it generates its in less than 1 minute (tested) and no marker on the capture, they just request a backlink.

Good isn’t it ?

[Hope their servers are good too, it's the keypoint of this sort of services.]

By Dejan
on May 6, 2008

@ ADSL
Yes, it does look good, i didn’t know about it ;)

By ADSL
on May 6, 2008

And what about http://www.artviper.com ? Pretty cool one too ;)

By Kyne
on May 5, 2008

very good colection!

By Dejan
on May 3, 2008

heh, this isn’t article about browser testing like
http://stylizedweb.com/2008/03/25/browser-testing/

it’s about providing screenshot services for web galleries for example ;)

By mark
on May 1, 2008

Looks good, thanks!

By Sarah
on April 30, 2008

Great collection. Thanks for sharing

By Nantucket Art
on April 29, 2008

Great list – thanks. I also use http://browsershots.org/ for it’s cross browser compatibility.

By Nout van Deijck - Blog
on April 29, 2008

I like this article very much!
Thank you for all information, StylizedWeb!!!
I live your unburdened and useful articles!

Nout van Deijck, Blog (about (web)design, typography, science and news)

By Jay
on April 28, 2008

What about Litmus? http://litmusapp.com/

By Santiag0
on April 28, 2008

Sorry, the site that i suggest is http://browsershots.org
Ouch!

By Santiag0
on April 28, 2008

What abou hhtp://Webshots.org
It’s great and free!
Thanks!!

By Fubiz
on April 28, 2008

Nice roundup!

By nikola
on April 28, 2008

nice roundup thanks ;-)

By Robert
on April 28, 2008

There’s also a nice Firefox extension that’ll allow you to save a .png image of any web page (or just a portion of a page) you can view. The name’s Abduction! It even updated for the Firefox 3 Beta versions. Check it out here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3408

By Dejan
on April 27, 2008

Sarah
Yes i agree, but i have tried the rest of them and they work just fine ;)

By Sarah
on April 27, 2008

based on their look only first two seams professional to me

By Mich
on April 27, 2008

Yes, when you have this kind of service, runing a web gallery should be a really ease job
looking forward to your next articles!

By Ivan
on April 26, 2008

really useful info, i din’t knew for any of them :D

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