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Halloo, folks…

I’ve started using the great WebThumb service from http://webthumb.bluga.net.

The thing is, the thumbnails are cached on their server, not for very long, and generating a fresh one often results in a browser timeout. So I need to cache the thumbs on my server.

I found a Drupal module (PHP) that appears to do exactly what I need:

http://drupal.org/project/bluga

I’m not the world’s greatest scripter, so is there any possibility that someone here would be willing and able to convert this module for use with EE? (Assuming the original author is amenable.)

I would imagine there might be others who could use this functionality on their EE sites.

Thanks!

Hey, Bob—have you seen ImgSizer?

Hi Sue,

I don’t think that is going to do the same kind of thing unfortunately. What Bob has linked to is for fetching a snapshot image of a website so that you can link to them, much like how all the CSS galleries do nowadays.

There is however a free service called Websnapr that handles this sort of thing also. Don’t know if you’ve already seen that one Bob?

Also you can (if you are allowed to do this) run software on your server to do this yourself so that you don’t have to pay a ‘hosted’ service to provide those images to you.

One method exists here. Have never tried this myself it was just the first one that came up in a search engine although I know there are probably a lot more of these types of things floating around the net or Source Forge.

Don’t know if any of that helps though?

Best wishes,

Mark

Heya, Sue…

Hmmmm… If I could get Bluga to generate a thumb, then figure out the url of the Bluga-cached image (if there’s a separate one from the original generation link), I might be able to feed it to ImgSizer.

Or maybe ImgSizer will accept the original URL.

Very interesting! I’ll do some experimentation and report back. Might not be soon, though. Too many client projects.  😊

Thanks!

There is also another service here called - Website Thumbnails although that one isn’t free for commercial usage.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi, Mark…

Lots of good info there!

Hadn’t seen that service. I’ll have to investigate their caching.

And I’m pretty sure I could run a thumbnail maker from my (shared) server, but I’d have to be judicious in how and when I build and cache. Then again, if the site takes off, I’m pretty sure I’d have to go dedicated.  😊

Thanks to you both for the excellent info… I’ll let you know what my findings are!