David Precious has released a perl library for the Webthumb API. Its available on CPAN, WebService::Bluga::Webthumb Thanks David.
Category: Webthumb
Webthumb.bluga.net has completed its move to a new server. Everything should be running smoothly at this point, but if you run into any problems let me know. If your dns… [Continue Reading]
I haven’t been actively blogging as of late, this is not likely to change, but here is some quick Webthumb news. The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been… [Continue Reading]
Once the dns change fully propagates Webthumb will be back up and fully running. If you had a different apikey on the backup instance you will want to switch back… [Continue Reading]
My blog and the rest of my sites are back up again, running on new hardware. The 2nd backup server/thumbnail processor is still waiting on some heat sinks before it… [Continue Reading]
Webthumb hit 5 million thumbnails some time last night. This blows away the last million time, taking just 34 days for this million. On that note contact me if you… [Continue Reading]
Error handling for Webthumb job requests has changed. Requests with bad urls are now silently ignored instead of dropping the entire request at the first error. This will fix problems… [Continue Reading]
For anyone using Easythumb I have good news and bad news. The good news is the rate for cached thumbnail delivery has been changed to .05 credits. The bad news… [Continue Reading]
Webthumb generated its 4 millionth thumbnail on monday The official time was 2008-08-11 11:09:49. I’ve been making good progress on the thumbnail rates lately, this million was a bit faster… [Continue Reading]
Thanks to simplificator there is now a Ruby gem for using the Webthumb API. Announcement and installation instructions Readme
Its new feature time for webthumb again. Today i’m making the alpha release of video thumb. Videothumb gives you the option of getting back a thumbnail of the video on… [Continue Reading]
The server is back up DNS should be updated for most things. Send me email jeichorn at gmail.com and josh@bluga.net if your still having any problems.
There will be a server outage today starting around 6:30pm Arizona Time The servers will be getting new IPs during this time so assuming we don’t run into DNS problems… [Continue Reading]
Webthumb generated my 2 millionth web page thumbnail yesterday. My first million took 564 days This second million has taken 84 days 🙂
So i’ve finally given in and joined twitter and started mo-blogging with flickr. I’m also looking into Bemba, since it’s one of my WebThumb customers.
A WebThumb drupal module has been added allowing you to easily use WebThumb in a drupal site. I haven’t had a chance to use the module but the code quality… [Continue Reading]
I’ve added an API call to get the credit status of your account. You can use this to track your usage and to see if you need more to purchase… [Continue Reading]
The WebThumb API docs have been updated. Your feedback on the docs or the API itself would be appreciated. I would like to make a new version of the API… [Continue Reading]
This Christmas Bluga.net WebThumb has 2 presents for your thumbnailing and web snapping needs. First is the holiday sale, you can get your credits at a reduced price, so use… [Continue Reading]
The new WebThumb website has finally been launched. Gone are the days of the super plain website, now were Web 2.0ish.