ScreenshotAPI.net

About ScreenshotAPI.net

ScreenshotAPI.net is a REST API for capturing website screenshots and converting web pages to other formats. It runs a managed Chromium browser to render JavaScript-heavy pages, capturing full-page or viewport screenshots, and can output results as PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF, MP4, or GIF. Built-in features include ad and cookie-banner blocking, lazy-load handling, scrolling video capture, HTML/text extraction, bulk processing of URL lists via CSV or JSON, and scheduled screenshots via cron expressions with storage to S3, Google Cloud, or Wasabi buckets.

The service is positioned as an alternative to self-hosting Puppeteer or Playwright, removing the need to manage browser infrastructure, memory usage, Chrome version updates, and custom scroll/lazy-load logic. It supports authentication, custom devices, dark mode, proxies, timezones, geolocation headers, custom CSS/JS injection, and cookie injection, with over 75 parameters available through a single endpoint.

It is aimed at developers and businesses needing automated website screenshots, PDF generation, or visual monitoring at scale, with stated use cases including visual QA, compliance reporting, invoice generation, competitor tracking, SEO audits, social media archiving, and research or analytics workflows that combine screenshots with structured data extraction.

Key features

• Full-page or viewport website screenshots via a single REST API call
• Converts URLs or raw HTML into clean PDFs with ads and cookie banners removed
• Automated and scheduled screenshots via cron expressions, stored to S3, Google Cloud, or Wasabi
• Bulk screenshot processing for thousands of URLs via CSV or JSON upload
• Scrolling screenshot capture as MP4, GIF, or WebM video for full-page content
• Extracts HTML and text content alongside screenshots for scraping use cases

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