Faster screenshots We have made additional improvements to make screenshots faster. We have added 2 new options in the API 1.6 to tune the delay between the page load and the screenshots.

Some pages may require a few seconds after the page has loaded to run JavaScript, make AJAX calls, or start Flash elements. The delays used to be fixed: 5 seconds of delay if the page contains JavaScript, and other 10 seconds of delay if Flash elements are present.

With the API 1.6, you can tune these two values:

  • delay=0 (0 to 5): never wait to execute JavaScript after the page has fully loaded
  • flash_delay=0 (0 to 10): never wait for Flash to run after the page has fully loaded

You can save up to 15 seconds on each screenshot! You could also decide to introduce delays for specific URLs only, it is up to you.

Free screenshots limit

We have limited the number of free screenshots to 100 per account per month. This limit is reset on the first day of each month.

If you want to use free screenshots as part of a free and public website, contact us to see how we can offer more free screenshots for your account.

Private browsers

There are now only very few cases that require private browsers. Those may be needed mostly for very high volumes. We have decided to restrict the use of the the API browser_create and instance_create to those few users only.