Google's Secret Screenshot API

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Post by edent » Tue, Nov 03, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

Google's Secret Screenshot API
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Re: Google's Secret Screenshot API

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Post by jstoiko » Tue, Nov 03, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

This is great. Thanks for sharing.

1) I know that google caches those thumbnails and returns a thumbnail instantly when it does have a cached version, do you know what happens when it does not?

2) have you come across any rate limit?

Re: Google's Secret Screenshot API

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Post by faulkner » Tue, Nov 03, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

I hope this isn't too off-topic, but the "weird" encoding is is just URL-safe base64 (see https://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html#base64.urlsafe...).

Re: Google's Secret Screenshot API

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Post by edent » Tue, Nov 03, 2015, 10:03 PM UTC

faulkner wrote: post #3

I hope this isn't too off-topic, but the "weird" encoding is is just URL-safe base64 (see https://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html#base64.urlsafe... ).

Can't believe I missed that! Thanks :-)

Re: Google's Secret Screenshot API

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Post by edent » Tue, Nov 03, 2015, 10:05 PM UTC

jstoiko wrote: post #2

This is great. Thanks for sharing. 1) I know that google caches those thumbnails and returns a thumbnail instantly when it does have a cached version, do you know what happens when it does not? 2) have you come across any rate limit?

Glad you enjoyed it.

1) The PageSpeed service takes some time to run, so it always returned a new image in my tests.

2) I haven't - but I wasn't stress testing it. It happily coped with a few dozen per hour.