This project is being deprecated because Amazon's AWS Alexa Site Thumbnail service is being deprecated.
Webpage Thumbnails — Screenshots via Page Glimpse in JavaScript
Ajax Alexa Thumbnails
A JavaScript module built on the Yahoo! User Interface library that allow asynchronous (Ajax) usage of Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service.
The project consists of a server-side component written in PHP which makes the cross-domain request to Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service, and a JavaScript component which makes Ajax requests to configured server-side component and caches the results.
Features
- Uses YUI library and registers itself as a module
- 1.4kb minified version
- Caching to reduce number of server and web service requests
- Ajax request queue to prevent multiple request for the same resource
- Configurable (in JavaScript) for small/large thumbnails, and wrap with anchor (link)
- YUI Logging support for development and testing
Examples
- Resume's Projects with thumbnail tooltips
- Hovering on a listed Project link shows a tooltip that fetches a thumbnail of the website.
- Uses the YUI Tooltip Widget
- Simple examples showing how to load and initialize the project
Requires
- Amazon Web Services account
- YAHOO! User Interface (YUI) 2.5.2+
- Running web server with PHP
It is required for you to have an Amazon Web Services account signed-up with the Alexa Site Thumbnail service. The AWS configuration resides in the alexa_service.php file; here is where your AWS Access Identifiers are set.
