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Have you ever wanted to be able to easily grab a thumbnail image that represents a website?

Eric Ferraiuolo has created Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails on Google Code, a library that builds on YUI to do just that.

The project consists of a server-side component written in PHP which makes the cross-domain request to Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service, and a JavaScript component which makes Ajax requests to configured server-side component and caches the results.

How do you call it?

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   (function(){         YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function(){                   var container = YAHOO.util.Dom.get("container");                                 YAHOO.EDF.Thumbnail.init({                         source: "alexa_service.php",                         size:   "large",                         anchor: true                 });                                 YAHOO.EDF.Thumbnail.getThumbnail("http://code.google.com/p/ajax-alexa-thumbnails/", function(thumbnail){                         container.appendChild(thumbnail);                 }).getThumbnail("http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/", function(thumbnail){                         container.appendChild(thumbnail);                 });                   }); }());  

Since this uses Alexa, it can't give you a snapshot of any page out there.

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