I’ve always wanted something like this. Instead of doing screen capture yourself, gluing two screenshots together for the full page image, resizing and so on, you can now simply go to Thumbalizr.com which does it all for you in a minute. Simply enter the URL of the page you need thumbalized and that’s it! You have a choice between standard resolutions (150, 320, 640, 800, 1024 and 1280 pixels wide) or you can enter an arbitrary width in pixels if your needs are more specific. I tested two thumb creations in a row for the same page, and it took almost the same time to generate, which got me thinking that it may be a waste of server time to create the same image over and over again. I was wrong of course, since the application does actually retrieve images for already made thumbnails from the local server if the address is matched. Maybe I just started the same thumbnail generation too fast in a row.

Thumbalizr.com offers an API, which simply lets you call the thumbnail generator directly from the URL which is put into the SRC property of IMG. The screen shot of this blog (on the right) is actually generated on the fly using this method. I wouldn’t actually call this an API really, since it is just a server program which generates an image. Since the whole project is still in Alpha, I guess the API will offer more functionality as the site progresses onto the next stage.

The site states over 1246602 thumbnails generated so far (at the time of writing this).

So, Thumbalizr.com - go create some website screenshot thumbnails!

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