Tools: I Built a Free Screenshot API Because I Was Tired of Wrestling With Puppeteer - 2025 Update

Tools: I Built a Free Screenshot API Because I Was Tired of Wrestling With Puppeteer - 2025 Update

What SnapAPI Does

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Real Use Cases

Pricing vs. Competitors

Get Started Free Raise your hand if you've been here before. You need to generate a screenshot of a URL. Simple enough, right? So you spin up Puppeteer. Then you spend three hours debugging why it won't launch in your Docker container. Then you discover your memory usage tripled. Then you learn that headless Chrome crashes on your cheapest VPS tier. All you wanted was a PNG. I went through this loop more times than I care to admit — for OG image generation, PDF invoice exports, uptime monitoring screenshots, thumbnail generation. The problem is always the same: running a headless browser is painful infrastructure that has nothing to do with your actual product. So I built SnapAPI — a dead-simple screenshot and PDF API. One HTTP call, one image or PDF back. That's it. No SDK to install. No Puppeteer dependency. Just a REST API. Same core capabilities at a fraction of the cost. snapshot-api-gamma.vercel.app — 100 screenshots/month, no credit card required. Stop fighting your browser infrastructure. Ship the thing you actually want to build. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Hide child comments as well For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse

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$ -weight: 500;">curl "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?url=https://example.com&format=png&width=1280&height=720" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -o screenshot.png -weight: 500;">curl "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?url=https://example.com&format=png&width=1280&height=720" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -o screenshot.png -weight: 500;">curl "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?url=https://example.com&format=png&width=1280&height=720" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -o screenshot.png const response = await fetch( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?" + new URLSearchParams({ url: "https://example.com", format: "png", width: "1280", height: "720", }), { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }, } ); const blob = await response.blob(); const response = await fetch( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?" + new URLSearchParams({ url: "https://example.com", format: "png", width: "1280", height: "720", }), { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }, } ); const blob = await response.blob(); const response = await fetch( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot?" + new URLSearchParams({ url: "https://example.com", format: "png", width: "1280", height: "720", }), { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }, } ); const blob = await response.blob(); import requests response = requests.get( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot", params={"url": "https://example.com", "format": "png", "width": 1280, "height": 720}, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}, ) with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f: f.write(response.content) import requests response = requests.get( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot", params={"url": "https://example.com", "format": "png", "width": 1280, "height": 720}, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}, ) with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f: f.write(response.content) import requests response = requests.get( "https://api.snapapi.dev/v1/screenshot", params={"url": "https://example.com", "format": "png", "width": 1280, "height": 720}, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}, ) with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f: f.write(response.content) - A screenshot (PNG/JPEG) of any URL - A PDF generated from any URL - Configurable viewport, full-page capture, custom dimensions - OG Image Generation — Dynamic social previews with one POST request - PDF Invoices — Design in HTML/CSS, convert server-side - Uptime Monitoring — Screenshot evidence when sites go down - Link Preview Thumbnails — Notion-style link cards