You do not need to be a programmer to use LinkPeek!
It occured to me recently that I have never shown screen shots of the LinkPeek Dashboard itself. If you join LinkPeek you will gain access to a tool that helps you take screen shots of web pages. It allows you to choose the size and viewport of the images.
Basics Every SQL Server Developer Should Know
Sometimes it is necessary to bring your thoughts in order and arrange them on the shelves. Better yet, why not organize thoughts in alphabetical and thematic order to demonstrate clear thinking? Now imagine what chaos would be going on in the "electronic brains" of any computer without the clear structuring of data and the Microsoft SQL Server. We will try to make this clear for everyone who does not know how to learn SQL Server …
What does LinkPeek mean?
LinkPeek is the combination of the work "link" and "peek".
Link is short for "hyperlink" a piece of text that may be clicked on to travel to another web page. Peek is the act of sneaking a look at something. Put them together you have LinkPeek.
Originally the usecase for LinkPeek was to be a Link previewing service. Allow users to peek at a …
Continue reading: What does LinkPeek mean?So you use Pelican static site generator and you want to add a custom Jinja filter for use in your templates? Great!
In this post I show how to take a simple Python function and make it accessable as a custom filter. As an example we will create a filter called LinkPeek which will allow us to easily embed website screenshots into our pages.
First, we need to …
Continue reading: How to add a custom Jinja filter to PelicanThe LinkPeek snapshot workers now have support for Google Web Fonts!
We solved this issue by installing the fonts locally on each snapshot worker. As a way of giving back to the community, we have decided to share our font install proceedure.
How to install Google web fonts to a Linux localhost
create a directory for google fonts
mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/
install mercurial hg …
On Thanksgiving I learned how to use Inkscape to create vector graphics and I produced an icon-logo-mascot for LinkPeek. I'm proud to introduce Peeker!
Here is the SVG version of Peeker which may be further manipulated in Inkscape.
We have implemented viewport a new request parameter.
Viewport allows you to:
Before viewport:
After viewport=400:
For complete documentation visit website screenshot request options
This post will discuss planning and engineering involved in taking a Website Screenshot of every two-letter Domain. In addition I will share some analytics regarding the traffic Hacker News sent my way.
The original idea
I originally had this idea "Dec 5, 2012 at 10:23 pm" according to my Trello board. I had a number of tasks and hurdles to solve before I was ready to tackle …
Continue reading: Firework Project Screenshot every two-letter DomainWe built hover-lib at LinkPeek because we needed a way to add on-hover images to select links. Images are loaded just-in-time to reduce bandwidth usage.
Update: We wrote a really neat example of what hover-lib does: Website Screenshot of every two-letter domain
The hover-lib library may be downloaded here: hover-lib.
How to use hover-lib
include hover-lib.css in the head:
<head>
<!-- include the hover-lib stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet …
We have finished moving the rest of the LinkPeek site to the new theme.
The new theme does not appear to have altered the conversion frequency of new customers. I would have thought a more professional looking site would cause the conversions frequency to increase.
Yay, we are sporting a new look! We finally got around to creating a custom theme and web design for LinkPeek.
The first area of the site to switch over is this blog. The other sections should move over in the next week.
Man this is pretty great looking!
: )
My favorite image manipulator program is GIMP and I often find myself with a directory full of xcf (gimp project files) that I would like to convert into PNGs for use on the web or in a video game. I like to keep my "master" copy of image assets in xcf format to preserve layer and history meta-data.
Today I was experimenting with an idea called sketch notes …
Continue reading: How to batch convert xcf to pngLinkPeek website screenshot service has teamed up with The Easy API to improve user experience and value for our members.
What is The Easy API?
The Easy API is a centralized service which reduces multiple API endpoints down to one standardized endpoint. This means you can access LinkPeek webpage screenshots and many other APIs from one place.
Meet Jeff
Jeff operates an awesome SEO company but needs to …
Continue reading: LinkPeek website screenshot teams up with The Easy APIThis post explains how to build a link which will display an image when a user hovers over their mouse. This technique could be used to create help balloons or link previews.
OK, lets build the special link one step at a time.
Create a link:
<a href="https://linkpeek.com">website screenshot service</a>
Add a place holder image like this transparent 1x1 pixel png. Notice that …
We are please to release filevault into the public domain. This module allows programmers to easily create and maintain large and complex directory trees. The LinkPeek API uses this module heavily!
The latest documentation and verison live here: [sourcecode]
A Vault will:
while ( token.length() < 32 ) { token = "0" + token; } // pad with 0's
Special thanks goes out to Shazin Shafi Ahamed (https://bitbucket.org/shazinahmed) for reporting this bug and providing details …
Continue reading: Pad zeros on Java BigInteger when making MD5 hashWe migrated the LinkPeek blog from static HTML to a static HTML blog generated with pelican. There are many static site generators and blogs frameworks to choose from. We decided to move our blog to pelican for the following reasons:
We are please to release logmongo into the public domain. This module allows programmers to easily log messages to a capped MongoDB collections. [sourcecode]
What does it do?
Today we sent coupon codes to anyone who signed up early. Forgot to signup and still want a coupon code? Tell us what you will be using LinkPeek for, and we will reply back with a code.
Apparently we had a bug that only registered 1 hit for really quick API requests. The request counts appear atomic now.
No more freebies! ; )
Members now have the ability to change their credit card and plan. Check out the new dashboard today!
Beta is now over. Thank you for the support during the testing.
We have just released the official LinkPeek Wordpress plugin. You might also be interested in a list of LinkPeek Web Page Screenshot Wordpess shortcodes.
I finally got around to building the forgot username, forgot password, and change password pages. LinkPeek should be a bit more functional now.
According to rrrewind.com, LinkPeek was the top story on HN on December 4th, 2011.
Linkpeek's webpage snapshot request options now support fetching images securely over HTTPS / SSL.
Requesting secure website screenshot images from a secure site will prevent mixed content warnings.
We have added secure site (https) support to LinkPeek. Special thanks to Charles Campbell, Sami, and Anthony for reporting the bug.
I am truly sorry for the grotesque and disgusting imagery posted on our site this morning. I left the "most recent" image on the website even though multiple people warned me about the possible misuse. I blame only myself.
I lost my lunch today. My nerves are all messed up. I have worked on the LinkPeek software for the past 6 months. The thought that LinkPeek was used …
Continue reading: LinkPeek ApologyLinkPeek.com became the top story on hacker news sunday night into monday morning! Thank you all for the support.
LinkPeek is offering 140x100 pixel thumbnails until Christmas 2011! Try the Website thumbnail generator now!
LinkPeek, webpage to image snapshot API, has joined forces with ProgrammableWeb directory!
The Website Thumbnail Generator is the first application powered by LinkPeek.com. Generate a thumbnail image of your site now!
We are proud to present the Website to image API. Embed self updating webpage snapshots on your site now, or we'll do it for you!