Screenshot API to Capture Website Screenshot

Screenshot API: Take pixel-perfect website screenshots

A JSON API to take screenshots of any website or web page. Use this API to take pixel-perfect web page screenshots, set custom viewport size, full-page screenshot, disable ads, disable cookie banners, and more.

Consumes 20 credits per API call

# Example Curl request from the command line: curl -X POST "https://api.apivoid.com/v2/screenshot" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \ -d '{"url":"https://apple.com/"}' # Example JSON output for a 200 HTTP status code: { "url": "https://apple.com/", "rendered_file": { "format": "PNG", "date_time_utc": "2024-11-29 19:00:32", "base64_file": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAB4AAAAQ4CAIAAABnsVYUAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAIABJREFUeJzs3XdUFNfbB/C7dJbeu4ICQUERBLEgWLA37KKoEbFrrKiINbH3rlhQsWHABhqxgQiKCg...", "image_width": 1920, "image_height": 1080, "file_size_readable": "344.53 KB", "file_size_bytes": 352795 }, "http_response": { "final_url": "https://www.apple.com/", "status_code": 200, "content_type": "text/html", "page_content_empty": false, "ip": "69.192.160.210" }, "html_info": { "title": "Apple", "description": "Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.", "og_image": "https://www.apple.com/ac/structured-data/images/open_graph_logo.png?202110180743", "icon": "", "og_site_name": "Apple", "ld_organization": "Apple", "canonical": "https://www.apple.com/", "robots": "", "twitter_site": "", "lang": "en-US" }, "elapsed_ms": 5763 }

Take screenshots of websites, convert URLs into PNG images

Businesses and startups use this Screenshot API to effortlessly take screenshots of websites homepage, pricing pages, news articles, seasonal newsletters and much more.

High-Quality Screenshots

Our API is focused into rendering screenshots in a high-quality and clean PNG image file.

PNG, JPEG, WEBP, AVIF

The generated image file can be in different formats, such as PNG (default), JPEG, WEBP, AVIF.

Configurable Options

Set viewport size, enable full-page screenshot, disable ads, disable cookie banners, disable images.

Web Page Metadata

Gain additional insights of the web page: page title, meta description, keywords, og image, etc.

Take a look at some real-world use cases of this API service

Our API can be used in many ways, from cybersecurity tasks to marketing-specific tasks. Here we showcase the most popular use cases according to our customers usage:

URL to PNG Image

Convert any website or web page into high-quality PNG, JPG, WEBP image for testing how it looks.

Homepage Thumbnail

Need to take a screenshot of the homepage of a list of websites? Easy! Our API allows you to do that.

Show Evidences

Convert any news article into a PNG image, serve it has a evidence or easily share it with colleagues.

Automate Tasks

Use this API to effortlessly automate any manual task of converting web pages to images in no time.

EVERYTHING YOU GET

Do it all with one screenshot request

One request renders the page in a real browser and returns the image in PNG, JPEG, WEBP or AVIF, plus full-page capture, device emulation, custom viewports and the page metadata behind it.

Mobile device emulation

Just set the device, e.g. iphone13
iPhone 5, iPhone 8 and iPhone 13
iPad in portrait and landscape
Landscape variant for every device
Change user agent (desktop or mobile)
Dark mode where supported

Image output and sizing

PNG, JPEG, WEBP and AVIF output
Smart full-page capture
Custom viewport up to 5000 × 10000
Thumbnail resizing to any dimensions
Grayscale the screenshot image
Browser address bar in the screenshot
Get image dimensions and file size

Clean, uncluttered captures

Ads disabled by default
Cookie banners disabled by default
Alerts and dialogs suppressed
Optionally disable images and fonts
Optionally disable JavaScript
Wait up to 10s before capturing
Pixel-perfect page screenshots

Headers and authentication

Basic Authentication
Authorization bearer token
Accept-Language override, e.g. en-US
Custom request header
Screenshot staging and internal tools

Page metadata and HTTP

Page title and meta description
Open Graph image and site name
Favicon and canonical URL
Robots meta tag and declared language
Organisation from JSON-LD data
Final URL after redirects
Status code and content type
Server IP and empty-page flag

Built for developers

Real browser and JS rendering
Plain JSON over HTTPS
Base64 image ready to decode and save
UTC capture timestamp in every response
Up to 120s allowed for heavy pages
20 credits per successful request
Simple integration

USAGE EXAMPLE

Learn how seamless it is to add and use Screenshot API anywhere you want

All it takes is a HTTPS POST request with JSON payload to our endpoint, and you’ll receive the response within seconds, usually within 10-20 seconds. Here are a few code examples to use the API:

$url = 'https://www.apivoid.com';

$apiUrl = 'https://api.apivoid.com/v2/screenshot';
$apiKey = 'your_api_key_here';

$ch = curl_init($apiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json', 'X-API-Key: ' . $apiKey]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(['url' => $url, 'full_page' => true]));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

if ($httpCode === 200) {
    $responseData = json_decode($response, true);

    print_r($responseData);

    // Save the "base64_file" data as PNG file
    if (isset($responseData['rendered_file']['base64_file'])) {
        $save_as = realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . "/screenshot.png";
    
        file_put_contents($save_as, base64_decode($responseData['rendered_file']['base64_file']));
    
        if (file_exists($save_as)) {
            echo '<p><img src="screenshot.png" alt="screenshot" class="img-responsive" /></p>';
        } else {
            echo '<p>Failed to create screenshot.png file.</p>';
        }
    }
} else {
    print_r('An error occurred: '.$response);
}