Alexa Site Thumbnail
The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa's large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl.
This web service enables developers to enhance web sites, search results, web directories, blog entries, and other web real estate with Alexa thumbnail images. Including web site thumbnails improves user experience by allowing end users to preview sites before clicking on the thumbnail's associated link.
Service Highlights
- Ease of use - Retrieve up to twenty thumbnail images at once by adding a single line of code to your web pages
- Broad and expanding image collection - retrieve thumbnails for home pages of web sites including all of the top sites on the Internet, all of the web sites in the DMOZ directory, with more becoming available daily.
- Responsive - If a requested thumbnail image does not yet exist, it will be automatically generated within 24 hours.
- Multi-size access - Thumbnail images are available in large (147x201 pixels) and small (82x111 pixels) sizes.
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Pricing
- Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
- $0.0002 / thumbnail returned (i.e. $0.20 per 1,000 thumbnails)
- No charge if the thumbnail does not exist
(Alexa Site Thumbnail is sold by Amazon Web Services LLC.)
Detailed Description
All thumbnail images are accessible via web services, using SOAP or REST. In addition, developers can quickly and easily add thumbnail images to web pages using the Alexa Site Thumbnail Utility Package in their language of choice.
Alexa Site Thumbnail Utility Package
This Utility allows developers to pass the URL of a web site, along with their Amazon Web Services identifiers, and the desired image size, into the provided get_thumbnail_link utility function and print the returned HTML directly into their web pages. For example, to display a "Large" thumbnail image for "somesite.com", developers would use:
get_thumbnail_link([Your Access Key ID], [Your Secret Access Key], "Large", "", "somesite.com")
To retrieve up to 20 thumbnail images at a time, developers can call the get_thumbnail_links function passing in an array of web sites:
get_thumbnail_links([Your Access Key ID], [Your Secret Access Key], "Small", "http://yoursite.com/no-thumbnail.jpg", [An array of site urls])
Getting Started
After signing up for this web service using the button above, developers can refer to the Getting Started Guide, which will guide them through downloading the "Alexa Site Thumbnail Utility Package" for the language of choice, and adding function calls wherever they would like a thumbnail image to appear on a web page. To start using the API directly using SOAP or REST, developers can refer to the Alexa Site Thumbnail Developer Guide.
Intended Usage and Restrictions
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