Transloadit Blog

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.

Up until now, if you reached your bill limit (in case you had configured one in your account settings) no new Assemblies would be accepted. This is not desirable in most cases, as your users would not be able to upload anything anymore. Also, they would see an awkward error message saying "BILL_LIMIT_REACHED". The worst part is that you wouldn't even get an email about this. Your upload service might not work, you wouldn't notice and it's only partly your fault ... and partly ours.

We have just added a new delay parameter for our /document/thumbs Robot! It allows you to control the delay between frames when converting PDF files into animated gifs.