Browshot blog

Browshot.com has always been a distributed service, with browsers running in the US, Germany and Australia. Starting 11/23/2013, we will distribute the access to browshot.com and api.browshot.com.

Users will access browshot.com through the closest access point:

1. US
2. Germany
3. UK
4. Australia

The geo-localisation will happen transparently through DNS. In the unlikely event that you will want to access browshot.com and api.browshot.com through a specific country only, you can use:

1. US: us.browshot.com and api-us.browshot.com
2. Germany: de.browshot.com and api-de.browshot.com
3. UK: uk.browshot.com and api-uk.browshot.com
4. Australia: au.browshot.com and api-au.browshot.com

This should result in faster access to our website regardless of your location. We will phase out or CDN hosting offer in favor of the newly distributed Browshot hosting option.

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This week-end we released the API 1.13 with two new features:

screenshot/html

You can get the HTML code of the rendered page (after the page has fully loaded and any JavaScript has been executed). This feature costs 1 credit and requires to pass the parameter html=1 in the screenshot/create call or in the simple API request.

screenshot/multiple

You can request up to 100 screenshots (10 URLs with 10 instances) in 1 API call to screenshot/multiple.

These features were requested by some of our users. Don't hesitate to share your feedback about our service, and ask for any additional functionality.

The Perl and PHP libraries have been updated to support the new API calls. The other libraries will be updated shortly.

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We have scheduled an upgrade of our back-end on Saturday October 10th, 2013 at 9:00pm PST until 10:00pm PST. We expect less than 5 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.

We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.

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• 9:00pm PST: upgrade started
• 9:01pm PST: back-end restarted
• 9:10pm PST: all browsers restarted
• 9:15pm PST: upgrade complete
• 9:30pm PST: Browshot is working fine

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We have scheduled an upgrade of our back-end on Saturday September 21st, 2013 at 9:00pm PST until 11:00pm PST. We expect less than 5 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.

We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.

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• 9:00pm PST: upgrade started
• 9:15pm PST: back-end restarted
• 9:18pm PST: about 3 minutes of partial downtime
• 9:21pm PST: upgrade complete
• 9:39pm PST: all systems are working fine

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We have made a change to the account/info API call that is similar to what we introduced earlier for screenshot/create.

By default, account/info now returns fewer information than previously. You can get details information (list of private browsers, private instances and last 10 screenshots) by specifying details=2 or details=3 in the API call.

You can find all the information in our API documentation page.

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