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I've tried to work around the alternate "Image not available" problem by calling create() on urls and checking whether the error message is 'url already exists' to determine whether a thumbnail already exists.

However I've found that the "Image not available" thumbnail is returned in some cases when calling find() even though "url already exists" is reported after create(). Why is this?

I'm using the PHP5 API and bought a webmaster account.

I've signed up for a free account to try out thmbnl, downloaded the PHP plugin, jumped through some hoops to get PHP running on my local system and looked through the (short) README file 289 times, but I still can't get the example file to work.

I stuck the entire example.php snippet (minus the unusable 'create' function) inside an img tag as the source. I'm getting what looks to be a good URL, but no image is retrieved. Note: I'm only trying to snag the default www.thmbnl.com 320 pixel image as it's set up in the example.

Example URL being returned:
h**p://www.thmbnl.com/snapshots?oauth_version=1.0&oauth_nonce=5ea60584827e57dfa4ac9721d98beb59&oauth_timestamp=1206395144&oauth_consumer_key=Zy8z6Wg6ShP9WuTP&size=320&url=www.thmbnl.com&oauth_token=avPvE3MTsChjnaJK&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_signature=N1U3gXdwAbhVAp6%2FLNKuVszUx54%3D

Is that how the URL should appear? Any suggestions?