Update Thumbnail of Sandbox

[jrock2004]

When I look at my dashboard the thumbnail is an old error page instead of something else. I saw in a closed issue that you could call an API to update your screenshot, but not sure how. Should this not be something the UI could do for us?

[JamesACS]

@jrock2004 - Out of interest, does the image refresh if you make some alterations to the Sandbox and reload it?

As a workaround you can also take a screencap of the project, name it thumbnail.png and upload it - the preview should then show that image

[sannek]

@jrock2004 - not to hijack James' answer but it is indeed possible to regenerate the screenshot:

Making a GET to codesandbox.io//api/v1/sandboxes/:sandbox_id/screenshot.png should regenerate it, where :shortid is the 5-6 character random id for your sandbox. The easiest way to find it is to open the sandbox, and the preview will have shortid.csb.app as the url.

(I'll also have a look at when / how we actually trigger updating the screenshot, because it should probably be regenerated occasionally if changes have been made)