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
• Usage with standard loading
• Usage with YUI Loader

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.

Usage Overview