If your dns is slow to update, you can use new.bluga.net.

The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been some API updates but nothing recently. One important item is that is uses version switching in the request to improve error handling.

You can grab it from svn or from the download page.

Since webthumb is now running on 2 physical servers pricing, I’m spending less on Amazon aws services this has allowed me to reduce prices. For volume purchases you can get credits at $1.25 per 1000.

More news and a we’re sorry gift of credits will be coming soon.

The 2nd backup server/thumbnail processor is still waiting on some heat sinks before it can get installed but now were running on a server with next day dell support.

I’ll have more details on webthumb changes once the dns has been updated. But the biggest difference will be a full time backup API which will be available all the time and support transparent fail over.

The pear wiki, and phpdoc.org should be back as well.

On that note contact me if you are interested in bulk purchases of credits. For purchases of 250k credits or more the rate is $1.25 per 1000. If you will be using more then 250k credits a month additional discounts are available, depending on your usage patterns.

This will fix problems with bad urls in multi-request submissions. Let me know if you have any concerns.

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 the last. If you want to help me hit the next million check out the site, if you want to buy 250,000 credits or more send me an email I have bulk rates available.

Announcement and installation instructions
Readme

Videothumb gives you the option of getting back a thumbnail of the video on a given url instead of that page. So if you thumbnail Simon’s Cat ‘Cat Man Do’ you can get

instead of
.

Videothumb gives you a thumbnail from the beginning of the movie (this may change) one from 1 second and one from 5 seconds, and all the normal sizes made from the first first frame snapshot.

To enable videothumb for your requests just add a videothumb tag to yours requests like:

<webthumb>
	<apikey>key here</apikey>
	<request>
		<url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q</url>
                <videothumb>1</videothumb>
	</request>
</webthumb>

If a supported video url isn’t detected a normal thumbnail will be created, so you can easily enable videothumb for all your requests.

Videothumb currently only works with youtube but I will be adding support for a bunch of other sites over the next couple days.

Currently videothumb is only available as an addon to webthumb, but may be made available as a separate api with additional features if there is demand.