https for dynamic thumbnails

There is no link library setting to make robothumb work over an https connection. This is a limitation of that service. The other service supported by Link Library does offer the ability to serve images over SSL, but only for paid accounts.

If you plan to sign up for that plan, I could implement support for SSL for paid thumbshots accounts.

An alternative would be to download thumbnails instead of serving them dynamically. Then you would have them locally on your web server and they could be served over https.

Oh, wow. I didn’t realize Thumbshots was still active.

The ShrinkTheWeb API library makes it easy to integrate the service and the service allows for HTTPS and custom CNAMEs. Additionally, the optional (and strongly recommended) “Callback Notification” feature (free) will deliver images to remote servers or storage the instant that a capture is ready (no polling required).

I would love to see STW integrated into this plugin. ??

Cheers,

Brandon

@jackdewey Thanks for your hints. Now I disabled the dynamic thumbnail generation and the site uses locally stored thumbs instead. And, to be honest, it might even be the better solution regarding loading time and the screen-shotted websites do not change that rapidly. A manual update twice a year should be enough for my use case.

Nevertheless, it would be a nice feature to have the ability to use a (free, at least for a little to medium amount of requests per month) dynamic thumbnail service via https – for both the requesting site and the screen-shotted site. There are so many services similar to STW suggested by @puravida1976 (e.g. https://www.programmableweb.com/category/screenshots/api). Of course, most of them offer only very limited functionality for free, but maybe you can find one that is suitable at least for operators of smaller websites among the Link Library users?

– https://www.pagelr.com/Plans
– https://www.sitesnapr.com/index.html#price
– https://market.mashape.com/thumbnail/website-screenshots
– https://market.mashape.com/handtrix/website-screenshot

Best regards,
Manuel.