Website Screenshot API - Full Page, Mobile & PDF

Capture screenshots of any list of URLs with real headless Chrome: full page, viewport or a single element, desktop, laptop, tablet, iPhone and Android presets, PNG, JPEG or PDF, dark mode, auto-hidden cookie banners and ads, and lazy-load scrolling. Each URL gets a dataset row with a public image link. From $1.50 per 1,000 screenshots ($2.00 for full page or PDF), and failed URLs are free.

What it does

• Capture modes: full scrollable page (with a height cap for endless pages), the visible viewport, or one element by CSS selector (e.g. #pricing, .infobox).
• Devices: Desktop 1920×1080, Laptop 1366×768, Tablet (iPad), iPhone (393×852 @3x), Android (Pixel 8), or custom width/height/pixel density, with matching mobile user agents and touch emulation.
• Formats: PNG (lossless), JPEG (quality 1–100, smaller files), PDF (A4/Letter/Legal/A3, selectable text, backgrounds included).
• Clean shots:
  • Clicks "accept" on common consent tools (OneTrust, Cookiebot, Didomi, Usercentrics, Quantcast…) and hides leftover cookie banners.
  • Blocks ad, analytics and chat-widget domains.
  • Hide any element with CSS selectors; inject your own CSS or JavaScript.
• Timing control: wait for DOM ready, load or network idle; extra delay; wait for a selector; scroll first so lazy images load.
• Dark mode (prefers-color-scheme), locale / Accept-Language, custom user agent.
• Reliable: retries on load errors, server errors and bot walls, automatic Apify datacenter-proxy fallback, per-URL error isolation. Failed URLs appear in the dataset with an error message and are not charged.

Use cases

• Website monitoring and visual QA: daily snapshots of landing pages, competitor pricing pages or your own releases.
• SEO and agencies: client reports, SERP landing-page audits, before/after redesigns.
• Archiving and compliance: PDFs of terms, ads or product pages with a timestamp.
• AI agents and LLM pipelines: give a vision model a picture of a page.
• Directories and link previews: thumbnails for thousands of sites.

Input example

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://www.python.org"],
  "device": "iphone",
  "fullPage": true,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "jpegQuality": 80,
  "hideCookieBanners": true,
  "blockAds": true,
  "darkMode": false
}

Output example

{
  "url": "https://www.python.org",
  "finalUrl": "https://www.python.org/",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "title": "Welcome to Python.org",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<storeId>/records/screenshot-00001-www-python-org-4863eab2.png",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-00001-www-python-org-4863eab2.png",
  "format": "png",
  "device": "desktop",
  "viewportWidth": 1920,
  "viewportHeight": 1080,
  "fullPage": true,
  "imageWidth": 1920,
  "imageHeight": 2593,
  "bytes": 427367,
  "loadTimeMs": 2515,
  "attempts": 1,
  "takenAt": "2026-10-18T04:50:00Z",
  "error": null
}

The image files are also listed under the run's Storage → Key-value store → Screenshots tab.

Pricing (pay per event)

• $1.50 per 1,000 screenshots of the viewport or a single element.
• +$0.50 per 1,000 for full-page screenshots and PDFs, which render the whole page and take several times the work. So $2.00 per 1,000 full pages.
• Failed URLs (DNS errors, timeouts, server errors, blocked pages) are free.
• No start fee beyond Apify's standard $0.00005 actor-start event.

FAQ

Full-page screenshots of endless pages? They're cut at "Max full-page height" (10,000 px by default) to keep files reasonable.

A site shows a login wall or captcha. The Actor retries and falls back to a datacenter proxy, but it does not log in or solve captchas. For geo-specific content, choose Apify Residential proxy in the Proxy field.

How long are images kept? In the run's default key-value store, per your Apify data-retention settings. Copy them elsewhere (Dropbox, S3, Google Drive integrations) for long-term storage.

Faster runs? Raise memory and "Parallel pages" (about 3 pages per GB), use viewport shots instead of full page, and JPEG instead of PNG.

Daily health check

A self-test (example.com) runs daily on Apify, so rendering problems get caught early.

Legal and fair-use notes

Only capture pages you have the right to capture, and respect websites' terms and copyright when you publish screenshots.