Posts from 2013

Just a short post to announce that we are very happy to add a new .NET SDK (software development kit) for our uploading & encoding service.

Today, we would like to announce a few changes to our API, as well as a brand new version of our jQuery SDK:

Today, we are very happy to announce yet another addition to our Robot family: the /file/compress Robot!

Today, we are excited to announce version 2.1.0 (up from 2.0.0) of our jQuery SDK. Here are the new features:

We would like to welcome the newest addition to our family of robots: the /video/merge Robot!

We would like to announce the newest addition to our Robot family: the /s3/import Robot.

This is just a quick heads up for everybody who uses the /youtube/store Robot. Google slightly changed their API and as a result it is no longer possible for accounts to use the Robot with their YouTube username and password.

We would like to inform you about a few improvements we have shipped last week.

We are thrilled to announce a new addition to our family today: the /image/optimize Robot.

We are pleased to share with you that our PHP library for easy integration of, for instance, video encoding into your app has received a substantial overhaul.

We have added support for more secure Notifications.

We hope you are having great day! And we are hoping to make it even better by announcing a change to the way our free plan works.

I'd like to let you know that we've made some improvements to our /html/convert Robot. With this robot you can make screenshots of websites and save them as JPEG or PNG.

We'd like to make two big announcements concerning our API today.

We have added a density option to our /document/thumbs Robot to make dealing with high-resolution PDF files easier. The density (in pixels per inch) of an image defines how far apart (or how big) the individual pixels are, thus defining the spatial resolution of an image.

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of a new Assembly Notification system, which scans your Assemblies once every 24 hours and looks for errors that are fixable on the user's end. Examples for such errors are Template misconfigurations and invalid URLs used in the /http/import Robot. There are many different kinds of problems that the system scans for. It then emails you the number of errors it found and suggests ways on how to fix them.

We are happy to announce that as of today, we have added support for SVG to our /image/resize and /document/thumbs Robots. We have also put up a demo, so you can see this new functionality in action: convert an SVG file to JPG

It has come to our attention that when upgrading your jquery-rails gem (or using other means of upgrading to jQuery 1.9 anyway), our jQuery SDK had some compatibility issues ($.browser doesn't exist anymore in jQuery 1.9 which was required by one of our components).

Crashed Assemblies are Assemblies that finish with the error code ASSEMBLY_CRASHED. Unfortunately they still occur from time to time due to server problems or outages. Only about every 10,000th Assembly crashes, so it doesn't happen a lot. But rest assured that we are working hard on getting rid of crashed Assemblies altogether. This is harder than it seems, though, so we decided we first need to improve how we handle the case when an Assembly crashes.