# Website Screenshots & Visual Changes — Static HTML (`abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor`) Actor

Capture fixed desktop or mobile viewport PNGs of public static pages. Save a baseline and measure changed pixels on later runs, with a difference image. Transparent limits and JavaScript-disabled rendering.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [ABDULWAHAB NASER RASHED ALQARAWI](https://apify.com/abdulwhab95) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $30.00 / 1,000 screenshot and optional comparisons

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Website Screenshots & Visual Changes — Static HTML

Enter public web page URLs to get fixed-viewport PNG screenshots and the final URL after any HTTP redirects.
Optionally reuse a named baseline to get a difference image and the percentage of changed pixels.

Static HTML rendering with JavaScript disabled does not reproduce an interactive browser session.

### Try it

```json
{"urls":["https://example.com"],"width":1280,"height":800,"maxResults":1}
```

HTTP redirects of the main HTML page and images are resolved through the validated public-web transport. The browser opens the final document URL, so relative images and stylesheets use the correct directory. `finalUrl` records that resolved document URL. Redirected stylesheets remain unsupported because their relative CSS resources need additional handling; use pages with direct stylesheet URLs.

### What counts as a result

One delivered row contains `url`, `finalUrl`, `width`, `height`, `screenshotUrl`, `comparison`, `changedPixelPercent` and optional `differenceImageUrl`. A first capture has no comparison. Later runs with the same `stateStoreName`, input URL and viewport compare against the saved image; the baseline updates only after delivery. Do not overlap runs sharing a baseline.

Missing or invalid required images/stylesheets, robots restrictions, exhausted budgets, unexpected navigation or incomplete decoding prevent a delivered screenshot for that page. Other input pages may continue. Check `RUN_REPORT` for failures and partial runs. Webfonts, media, JavaScript, service workers and speculative prefetch are intentionally omitted. Frames, HTML refresh navigation and redirected stylesheets are unsupported. Required lazy images that have not loaded also cause a failure; the Actor does not promise complete rendering of every site.

### Limits and pricing

- Up to 10 input URLs is an input cap, not a promise to render 10 resource-heavy pages.
- The shared request budget is 100 by default, 300 maximum. Pages, redirects, robots, stylesheets and images all count. Successful downloaded bodies share a 40 MB run budget, with smaller per-response caps. Failed/aborted transfers are not exact physical-byte accounting.
- Maximum viewport: 1920×2160. A 60-second per-page deadline, 240-second processing deadline and platform run timeout bound work. No promise is made that every maximum can be reached together.
- **$0.03 per delivered screenshot/optional comparison**, plus the existing **$0.001 start charge** at supported memory sizes. Rejected screenshots have no result charge; the start charge still applies. Set `maxResults` and Apify's maximum run cost.

PNG links follow Apify storage access and retention. `changedPixelPercent` measures luminance differences above `pixelThreshold` (20 by default), not semantic page changes. No notification or recurring schedule is created automatically.

### عربي

حط روابط صفحات عامة، وتطلع لك صور PNG مع الرابط النهائي بعد التحويل. تقدر تحفظ صورة أساس للمقارنة لاحقًا. الأداة خاصة وتجريبية؛ ترفض الصور الناقصة، ولا تدعم تحويل ملفات CSS أو الإطارات أو صفحات JavaScript التفاعلية. الأسعار الحالية محفوظة.

### September 2026 update

Use this tool for public static HTML screenshots and repeatable pixel comparisons. JavaScript applications, interactive flows and semantic layout diagnosis are outside its scope.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Public HTTP(S) URLs without credentials.

## `width` (type: `integer`):

Integer from 1 to 1920.

## `height` (type: `integer`):

Integer from 1 to 2160.

## `pixelThreshold` (type: `integer`):

Ignore luminance differences up to this value.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Optional named store in your account. Reuse for comparisons; avoid overlapping runs. Use letters, digits and hyphens, 3–61 characters.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Integer from 1 to 5000.

## `maxRequests` (type: `integer`):

Integer from 1 to 300.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com"
  ],
  "width": 1280,
  "height": 800,
  "pixelThreshold": 20,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxRequests": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runReport` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://example.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": ["https://example.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,abdulwhab95/static-website-visual-change-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Za9ddzekxlP4ztxza/builds/2lasc60RL3IWjSFaB/openapi.json