Screenshot Website Tool
https://t.ly/tools/screenshot-website
As part of my SEO/marketing strategy, I am adding free tools to help drive traffic. Here is my latest tool for taking a screenshot of a URL. Im looking for other ideas related to URLs. Any suggestions?
Hi Tim, great job launching a new tool. I would add some padding around the header for users to scan your offer better. It will look more like a professional designer has touched it too.
Thanks will do!
For a security stand point I would suggest you to solve that on the client side and never resolver URL's you don't trust on your end.
Just a heads up!
This allows me to remote execute code on you DigitalOcean server. Although this is not a public information since you are running your service under CloudFlare, the moment that you let me remote execute anything from a GET call on your end. It allows me to ask for you service to "screenshot" any website that shows your servers IP Address and by pass completely CloudFlare service.
If you are willing to do SEO with stuff like that I would recommend you to create couple of Chrome Extension to share for free with your audience. Is more secure and you dont have any strings attached to whatever your user is doing.
Thanks for the advice! Fortunately, I thought of this and to keep my servers private, I am generating the screenshots elsewhere. Feel free to email me if I missed something 😅.
Either way, you are still responsible for the traffic through your services, think about harmful content such as some kind of pornographic content that could cause your problem
That is a great point and something to be aware of. I may have to shut it down if it becomes an issue. I'm returning the image base64, so I'm not "hosting" it but feel free to let me know if I'm not thinking of a security issue.
Have you considered creating a Chrome extension for it?
As for related tools, I would say file-type conversions. (PNG -> JPEG, etc.)
Also, have you considered making the screenshot feature more comprehensive?
Perhaps adding marking tools (pen, pencil, highlighter, etc.)
Make it the Loom for screenshots!
Great idea, and I may do this in the future! My primary goal with this is to drive traffic to T.LY, so another extension may not help as much.
Fair enough. Keep us posted, I would like to see what you end up doing.
Will do thanks!!