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We have made a change to the account/info API call that is similar to what we introduced earlier for screenshot/create.
By default, account/info now returns fewer information than previously. You can get details information (list of private browsers, private instances and last 10 screenshots) by specifying details=2 or details=3 in the API call.
You can find all the information in our API documentation page.
We have updated our Terms of Service to cover inactive accounts. Accounts with no activity for 6 months or more will be disabled. Screenshots will not be available to the user anymore.
We will send notices by e-mails to the owner of inactive accounts. We encourage all users to add a valid e-mail address to their Browshot account to receive important updates.
Our hosting provider in Australia will do an upgrade of their data center on Thursday, September 5 from 1:00am AEST to 5:00am AEST. Service for Australian browsers may be interrupted during this period.
We will update this post when the maintenance window is closed.
Update: The maintenance is done, all Australian browsers are running fine.
Users could look for screenshot requests matching a string on their Dashboard. We have added a similar search feature to the Browshot API. You can find screenshots you requested by looking for a string in the URL. For example, if you want to look for all the screenshots requests of google.com, you can try:
https://api.browshot.com/api/v1/screenshot/search?url=google.comWe have also made a change to the information stored for each screenshot. If you want to get full information about a page (details=3) with screenshot/info, you now need to add details=3 to the screenshot request as well. This will make screenshots faster for the vast majority of users who don't really need the additional details. We avoid changes that break backward compatibility, but we fell that the gains for the majority of the users were worth it.
We will update the Browshot libraries with the new screenshot/search API call.
In our continuous efforts to scale up Browshot and increase reliability, we will upgrade our infrastructure on Saturday 07/13/2013 from 9pm PST to 11pm PST.
We expect the upgrade to take less than 30 minutes and less than 5 minutes of downtime. The API will be stopped up to 15 minutes.
We have notified all users by e-mail (make sure you have added your e-mail address to Browshot) and through the Dashboard.
We will post status updates in real time on this page during the upgrade.
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