Our service is offered starting for free; the CPU server is much cheaper, and I wanted to see if it could be sufficient for most basic WebGL animations.
The GPU tier makes sense for paid users; that will be the next blog post!
I recently bought a Lotus Elise and have set up a small website to collect most of the things new owners need to know about the car - https://lotus-center.vercel.app/
That's a thing I've working for a while after evaluating some similar services out there that don't fit all the things I needed.
Q: Yet another Screenshot as a service?
Yes! but you will find this one is completely different.
Q: Why is this different?
What makes it stand out from the rest is the server-side solution: the screenshot image will be served from a CDN, being available globally and you won’t have to worry about downloading or storing it.
Q: Why is this better?
This allows the service to provide some extra things there, like automagically refreshing the screenshot after a time: this means the screenshot always reflects the content behind the target URL .
Q: Will the screenshot be fancy?
So fancy.
Microlink screenshots support browser overlay (light and dark theme) and custom background color or gradient .
Q: How configurable is it?
You can hide, click, wait or scroll to elements. Also, you can emulate a list of 71 devices. The screenshot can be full page and the output can be PNG or JPEG.
Q: Can you block trackers, popups, etc?
Sure, this is done by default.
Q: Cookie banners as well?
Yes, specially cookie banners .
Q: Sounds good, but what about pricing?
It starts at $0. The API has a daily rate limit; If you reach it and you need more, you can jump to a pro plan, they are intentionally cheap.
microlink.io is a service for getting relevant information from any website.
with him, you can easily convert your links into beautiful previews. Similar to Facebook URLs on timeline or cards on Twitter/Medium, but out of the box.
This is an example using microlink into my Jekyll blog:
WordPress integration is coming; feel free to suggest one as well!
The pricing of the service is based on API calls. We offer a generous free plan under daily rate limit. Pro plans is oriented to popular sites, with thousands or daily request.
All the information about what the API can do is under:
The GPU tier makes sense for paid users; that will be the next blog post!