Browshot blog

We have updated all our mobile browsers. The changes are most visible for high-resolution mobile screens like the iPhone 5 and iPad. We are working on upgrading the Desktop browsers as well to support the latest HTML5 and CSS3 elements.

New tabs in the Dashboard

We have added new sections to the Dashboard:

• Screenshots: the previous dashboard page (no change)
• Billing: history of all the credits bought or received fro free. You will also see the list of monthly subscriptions for private instances and custom projects.
• Custom Projects: one or more custom pages to support custom projects
• Search: search for previous screenshots. The search option was already present in the dashboard, but it is now more visible.

Several customers have asked us to write custom code running on the Browshot servers to meet their needs. We have updated our back-end to serve these customers better, and all new custom projects.

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We have released the first version of the C# library for Browshot, browshot-csharp. We now have open-source implementations in Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python and .Net.

You can download the Visual Studio 2012 Project
(with with the free Express edition) from github at https://github.com/juliensobrier/browshot-csharp. GitHub also host the latest documentation for the library.

This is the first release and should be considered alpha quality. It comes with uni tests, but a lot of work and testing is sill needed. As usual, feel free to send us patches through github.

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We have added a new API call to delete any confidential information: screenshot/delete. You can delete the URL, the screenshot and thumbnails and metadata from our servers.

We have update screenshot/thumbnail to let users crop an image before scale it down. You can specify the 4 coordinate (left, right, top, bottom) of the cropped image. The image is cropped first, then scaled down. See the examples in the API documentation.

We have added these two features after requests from our users. If you need additional features, don't hesitate to send us an e-mail at feedback@browshot.com.

The open-source libraries will be updated shortly.

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We support custom Referer headers and custom POST DATA since February 2012. Now, you can also specify a custom cookie string. This makes it possible to use Browshot with any website that requires authentication.

Custom cookie is supported both in the API and in the dashboard under "Advanced options".

Custom HTTP headers

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any question.

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We have added the new iPad and iPhone 5 virtual browsers to Browshot. Both are are available as premium browsers.

New iPhone and iPad virtual devices available from your dashboard

That brings the total of virtual devices available in Browshot to 11, all available in horizontal and vertical orientation.

screenshot taken on iPhone 5

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