Tools / Website Screenshot Scraper - JPEG, PNG & PDF Capture API

Website Screenshot Scraper - JPEG, PNG & PDF Capture API

Capture any public URL as a JPEG, PNG or PDF screenshot with a real Chromium browser. Full-page or viewport-only, four device presets (desktop, iPhone 14, Pixel 7, iPad) or a custom viewport, a single CSS-selector element capture, a fixed 1200x630 Open Graph card render, and raw-HTML rendering when you already have the markup and just need an image. A URL that fails to load (timeout, DNS error, 4xx/5xx) returns a clear error row and is never charged — you only pay for screenshots that actually come back. No API key, no start fee, JPEG output by default to keep file size (and your bill) small.

Run it

curl -X POST https://fetchsmith.com/api/v1/run/website-screenshot-scraper \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"devicePreset": "desktop", "format": "jpeg", "fullPage": true, "urls": ["https://example.com"]}'

Output fields

url format success error imageUrl screenshotKey contentType byteSize capturedAt

Sample output

{
  "byteSize": 64221,
  "capturedAt": "2026-10-16T12:00:00.000Z",
  "contentType": "image/jpeg",
  "error": null,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "imageUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/abc123/records/screenshot-1760000000000-0.jpg",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-1760000000000-0.jpg",
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://example.com"
}

Guides

PNG to JPEG saved 15-63% on a full-page screenshot, depending on the page. Cropping beat both. — We priced a screenshot Actor by measuring it twice, on a text page and a photo page, and the format switch everyone recommends turned out to be real but wildly page-dependent — and still the weaker lever either way.

Only publicly accessible pages are read. Respect the source site's terms when using the data.