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We are doing major upgrade of the Chrome and Mobile instances. You can test the new chrome 60 (instance #35) and iPhone 7 (instance #67) for free during the beta tests. The goal is to replace all Chrome and mobile (Android & iOS) instances with the new versions in a couple of weeks. These new instances bring improved speed and reliability.
After the end of the beat test, the iPhone 7 will be available as a premium or private instance only.
We have updated all our servers with a new SSL certificates to fix a compatibility issue with the latest Chrome version. There was no downtime. The new certificate is valid for 1 year.
We started offering Internet Explorer instances in June 2014. Almost 3 years later, less than 0.01% of the screenshots have been done one of the 4 Internet Explorer instances we have available.
We think it is better to focus our efforts and resources on the Chrome and Firefox desktop browsers, as well as the Android and iPhone mobile instances.
We will hide the Internet Explorer instances from the dashboard in the next 2 weeks. They will still be available through the API. The instances will be completely removed by April 16th.
Please contact us if you have any concern.
Here are some of the updates to Browshot we rolled out in January 2017:
We have moved all static content to cdn.browshot.com. It is powered by the Amazon CloudFront CDN, replacing our previous Microsoft CDN. Some users were having issues with the previous DNS. We noticed better performances with the new CDN, especially in Asia
You can download the browshot API specifications in Swagger format. This allows you to create a library in pretty much any language.
We are upgrading Firefox to version 45.4.0. About half of the browsers have been upgraded, the rest will be upgraded as they restart during the week.
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Browshot is a web service to create real time web screenshots in a multitude of virtual devices, including mobile devices like the iPhone 3 & 4, iPad, Android Nexus, etc.
You can use the web dashboard, or our full-featured API.
Real time screenshots
15+ mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.
30+ desktop resolutions
Fast and reliable
Thumbnails of any size, any ratio
Full API, open-source libraries