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Mobilito: Screenshot of any website on mobile devices

Jan 9, 2012

Tags: Mobilito mashup

Mashup: Mobilito We are proud to announce Mobilito, a free website powered by Browshot.

Mobilito uses actual mobile browsers to simulate the physical device. You can check how your website looks to your mobile users.

Select a mobile device (Nook Color, Nexus S, iPhone 4, etc.), choose your device orientation (vertical or horizontal), and take a screenshot of any website from the virtual device.

The website was made to highlight some of the powerful and unique features offered by Browshot: the ability to use a real mobile browser, the wide selection of devices and screen resolutions we replicate, the ability to get thumbnails in any size, and real-time screenshots.

Check out the free website at http://mobilito.net/.

Mashup: Mobilito

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API 1.3

Dec 10, 2011

Tags: API

Updated commands

A new variables was added to the reply:

  • cost: number of credits spent for the screenshot

All 1.2.x libraries work with the API 1.3.

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Libraries on CPAN, Rubygems and PyPI

Nov 21, 2011

Tags: Python Libraries Perl Ruby

We want to make the Browshot libraries easily available to all developers. After releasing the source code on github, the next step was to make the packages available in repositories: CPAN for Perl, Rubygems for Ruby, and PyPI for Python. You can use your standard tools to install the latest version of Browshot for your favorite language:

cpan WebService::Browshot
gem install browshot
pip install browshot

All packages are fully documented. Don't hesitate to contact us at dev@browshot.com if you have any question.

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All libraries are on github

Nov 21, 2011

Tags: Python Libraries Perl Ruby

You can check out the source code of the Browshot libraries on Github.



Python: https://github.com/juliensobrier/browshot-python



Perl: https://github.com/juliensobrier/browshot-perl



Ruby: https://github.com/juliensobrier/browshot-ruby




Don't hesitate to submit patches, bug reports, etc.

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Unit tests for all libraries

Nov 21, 2011

Tags: Python Libraries Perl Ruby

Extensive unit tests have been added to the Perl, Python and Ruby libraries. A couple of bugs have been found and fixed. make sure you have the latest version to take advantage of the API 1.2.

A test account has been created. It works like a real account except screenshots requests, new instances creations and new browser creations are not actually performed. Instead, a random existing screenshot and a random existing private instances are sent back.

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    About Us

    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