ThumbTo.it

A Picture of Every Link

A list of links tells people nothing until they click. ThumbTo.it turns any web page or document into a thumbnail — a screenshot of the page, or the first page of the PDF — ready to drop into your site or app with a single image link.

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web
Pages
A real browser opens the page and waits for it to finish, so the thumbnail looks the way your visitors see it — on a desktop or a phone.
desktop · phone · full page
1280 × 800 → 400 × 250
Sized, cropped and converted to WebP, PNG or JPEG.
description
Documents
PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and images, by link or upload. Choose the page; the first is the default.
PDF
and Office
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Typical PDF
link
Linked
Put a signed image link straight into a page, or use the API and get a callback when the thumbnail is ready. Only your key can make links that count against your account.
key signed with your secret
bolt
Cached
Every thumbnail is kept and served instantly until it's older than you allow. Pages are re-taken on your schedule; documents only when the file changes.
check
Served from cache in milliseconds.