Welcome Alexa Users! 6

Posted by Peter Thomas on March 19, 2009

 

As we all know, Amazon Web Services is discontinuing the Alexa Site Thumbnail service. The service has been providing developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the pages of web sites that were stored in Alexa’s index. New subscriptions are no longer being accepted, and existing subscribers will only have operational access until June 12, 2009.

The best alternative out there is PageGlimpse. It provides an easy to use API, a Wordpress plugin, .NET library and many other tools and features for FREE.

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  1. A trawl around the web, February 20th to March 27th - blog - James Cridland Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:40:38 UTC

    [...] Welcome Alexa Users!PageGlimpse, a new website thumbnail service, as used in Media UK. [...]

  2. will Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:21:29 UTC

    You’re service is down at the moment and I’m right in the middle of trying this service as an alexa alternative. Can you fix?

  3. Eric Ferraiuolo Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:45:36 UTC

    I was using the Alexa Site Thumbnail service, now I’m using Page Glimpse, and wrote about my transition. I’ve also created a utility to interact with Page Glimpse from JavaScript in a convenient way.

    Webpage Thumbnails — Screenshots via Page Glimpse in JavaScript: http://925html.com/code/webpage-thumbnails/

  4. shekhar sahu Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:29:08 UTC

    It is very helpful.

  5. Jan Paricka Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:37:22 UTC

    I agree. I was with SnapCasa - very unhappy. They still owe me money back. I wish I came across pageglimps first.

  6. Ben B Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:38:39 UTC

    Should we read into the fact there has been no update in almost a year on this blog? Also, I would be interested in either being contacted or learning about whether there are/ will be features enabled such as immediate screenshot access- so there is no more than x delay. Scenerio being, there is maybe a 5 min delay but not something in the realm of 24 hours like some services. I would anticipate this would be a paid feature, which is fine, but again, I am not even certain there is much happening with the PageGlimpse service anymore - is there?

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