heartsaffection — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:39:24 +0000

Yeah - I was already aware of these guys, however they only have images for sites in the dmoz database. Although this is good for sites listing reletively old and established sites, new sites just won't have an image.

I am also aware of the .cz (I forget the domain) company that went live this March doing the same thing. I was actually looking for help in building a similar service for myself, only on a much smaller scale as part of my existing site.

Thank you though.

Andy

andy206uk — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:58:21 +0000

Try these guys:

http://thumbshots.org/

update

heartsaffection — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:01:12 +0000

ok, since writing this, I have realised just how much is involved in it. I essentially need to create a small 'search engine' that will crawl all links in the mySQL database say once a month, and update snapshot images of the pages.

Still, I'd like to give it a go - I'm brave!

I'm figuring I need two main things - some coding to crawl the sites listed in a mySQL database, and another bit of coding to take snapshots of the front pages of the sites that are crawled.

I don't need it to go any further into the site than the front page, so that should make it easier, and the database will be manually updated with new sites, so that should ease things up too.

All help gratefully received though!

Andy