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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Ajax Alexa Thumbnails

A JavaScript module built on the Yahoo! User Interface library that allow asynchronous (Ajax) usage of Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service.

The project consists of a server-side component written in PHP which makes the cross-domain request to Amazon's Alexa Site Thumbnail web service, and a JavaScript component which makes Ajax requests to configured server-side component and caches the results.

Features

  • Uses YUI library and registers itself as a module
  • 1.4kb minified version
  • Caching to reduce number of server and web service requests
  • Ajax request queue to prevent multiple request for the same resource
  • Configurable (in JavaScript) for small/large thumbnails, and wrap with anchor (link)
  • YUI Logging support for development and testing

More details on http://code.google.com/p/ajax-alexa-thumbnails/

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