Website Screenshot Generator: a picture of every page in your list, PNG or JPEG

Paste a list of addresses and you get an image of each page, plus a row carrying the link to that image, the final URL after redirects, the page title, the HTTP status, the dimensions and the file size.

You control what the camera sees: the first screen or the whole page stitched together, any width from 320 to 2,560 pixels, normal or retina density, light or dark, desktop or phone layout. CSS selectors let you delete the cookie banner and the chat bubble before the shutter fires, or photograph one element on its own.

Worth knowing before the first run. A page that answers 404 or 500 and still renders is a real screenshot and is charged like any other, with statusCode on the row to tell you. A page that refuses to render at all still gets its image stored and handed to you, and that one is not charged.

Input	Page addresses, up to 300 per run
Output	One row per page, with a link to its image
Ceiling	300 pages per run, inside a total image size budget you set
Account needed	None
Price	$3.00 per 1,000 screenshots, which is $0.003 each, flat on every plan

📸 What Website Screenshot Generator does

It opens each address in a real browser at the size you asked for, waits as long as you told it to, applies your CSS, and takes the picture. Images land in the run's key-value store and every row links straight to its own.

Full-page capture scrolls the page and stitches it into one tall image, up to the height ceiling you set, and marks truncated when it had to cut. Scrolling also happens on request without full-page capture, which is what makes lazy-loaded images below the fold actually appear.

The selector fields are where most of the work happens in practice. removeSelectors takes an element out of the layout, which is the one for cookie banners and pop-ups. hideSelectors makes it invisible but keeps its space, which is right for a sticky header you want gone without everything shifting up. selector narrows the shot to one element.

locale and timezone are passed to the browser, so a site that localises renders in the language and clock you asked for.

Duplicate addresses are dropped before anything renders, so a messy list does not cost twice.

📥 What you give it

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://news.ycombinator.com"],
  "fullPage": true,
  "viewportWidth": 1440,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "quality": 80,
  "removeSelectors": ["#cookie-banner", ".intercom-launcher"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Field	Comes set to	What it is
urls	two examples	The pages, one per line. A bare domain works. Up to 300.
maxItems	10	Hard stop on how many pages this run photographs, 1 to 300. Keep it low while testing.
fullPage	false	Off gives you exactly the viewport. On scrolls and stitches the whole page.
viewportWidth, viewportHeight	1440, 900	The browser window. 390 wide is a phone, 1920 a desktop monitor.
deviceScaleFactor	1	2 is retina, 3 is print. Remember 2x is four times the file size.
format, quality	jpeg, 80	JPEG is much smaller. PNG is lossless and can carry transparency. Quality applies to JPEG only.
darkMode, mobile	false	Ask the page for its dark theme, and render as a touch phone. Pair mobile with a narrow width.
waitUntil	domcontentloaded	How ready the page must be: commit, domcontentloaded, load or networkidle. On an ad-funded page networkidle often waits for the timeout.
delayMs	800	Extra pause for animations and fonts, up to 15 seconds.
navigationTimeoutMs	25000	Give up on a page that has not become ready in this long. If enough of the page exists by then, it is still captured.
scrollToBottom	false	Scroll first so lazy images load. On automatically with fullPage.
maxFullPageHeight	8000	Tallest a full-page shot may be before it is cut, up to 20,000 px.
maxTotalImageMb	250	The run stops once it has written this many megabytes. Pages it never reached are not charged.
selector	empty	A CSS selector to photograph one element instead of the page.
hideSelectors, removeSelectors	empty	Up to 30 selectors each: hide keeps the space, remove takes it out of the layout.
customCss	empty	Raw CSS injected just before the shot, up to 4,000 characters.
transparentBackground	false	PNG only. Leaves the page background out, for dropping an element into a design.
locale, timezone	empty	en-US, de-DE, Europe/Berlin, America/New_York.
concurrency	3	Pages rendered at once, 1 to 6. Drop to 1 for a site that objects.
useProxy	false	Turn it on if a site refuses the run.
proxyUrls	empty	Your own servers, as http://user:pass@host:port. Only the first entry in the list is used, and it takes precedence over everything else.

Leave urls empty and you get one sample row showing the shape, with no browser started and nothing charged.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "screenshot",
  "url": "https://example.com/",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/zBdffYZdgUJdUcRAq/records/screenshot-001-example.com.jpg?signature=9w6b5...",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-001-example.com.jpg",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "imageWidth": 1440,
  "imageHeight": 900,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "fullPage": false,
  "darkMode": false,
  "deviceScaleFactor": 1,
  "viewportWidth": 1440,
  "viewportHeight": 900,
  "pageHeight": 900,
  "truncated": false,
  "fileSizeBytes": 17536,
  "loadTimeMs": 1090,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:27:34.234Z"
}

Field	What it is
screenshotUrl, screenshotKey	A direct link to the image, and its name in the run's key-value store. Download what you want to keep.
url, finalUrl	What you asked for, and where it ended up after redirects.
statusCode	The main document's status. A page that rendered on a 404 says 404 here.
imageWidth, imageHeight	Read from the image itself, so this is the real picture size, density included.
pageHeight, truncated	How tall the document was, and whether the height ceiling cut it.
fileSizeBytes, loadTimeMs	Useful for spotting the page that is quietly eating your size budget.
format, fullPage, darkMode, deviceScaleFactor, viewportWidth, viewportHeight	The settings this shot was taken with, copied onto the row, so a mixed dataset stays readable.

🧾 Reading the output

recordType and ok separate the three kinds of row. charged is the flag that marks a real screenshot apart from the sample and the diagnostics, rather than a receipt.

Row	How to spot it	Charged
A screenshot	recordType is screenshot, ok is true	yes
The sample row	_sample is true	no
A diagnostic	_diagnostic is true, with an errorCode	no

The table view has no errorCode column, so a failed row can look like a thin successful one. A BLOCKED row even carries an image. Filter on recordType when you are counting.

Code	What it means
BLOCKED	The site would not let the page render. The image of whatever was on screen is still delivered.
NAV_TIMEOUT	Nothing usable had loaded inside navigationTimeoutMs.
NAV_ABORTED	Not a page the browser can display. A PDF or other file lands here.
DNS_FAILED, CONNECTION_REFUSED, TLS_FAILED	The address did not resolve, the server refused, or the certificate did not check out.
SELECTOR_NOT_FOUND	Your selector matched nothing on the page.
IMAGE_TOO_LARGE	The picture went past the encoder's ceiling of 16,000 pixels a side.
BUDGET_REACHED	maxTotalImageMb is spent. One row says so and the pages after it are skipped.
TIME_BUDGET	The run ran out of time before reaching that page.
RENDER_FAILED, RENDERER_CRASHED	The browser failed on that page. Worth one re-run.
PROXY_INPUT_ADJUSTED	A network option you set was not one this actor uses, so it carried on without it.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Website Screenshot Generator and click Try for free.
2. Put your addresses into Page addresses, one per line.
3. Set Maximum screenshots low for the first run, so you can check the framing before paying for 300 of them.
4. Add the cookie banner and chat bubble to Remove these elements. That one change improves more screenshots than any other setting here.
5. Click Start, then open the rows to see the images, or pull them from the key-value store.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 screenshots, which is $0.003 each. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per image taken. The sample row is not charged, nor are the diagnostics: a page that was refused, timed out with nothing to show, had no matching selector, or was skipped once the size budget ran out. A page that rendered is charged whatever its status code says.

Ten screenshots is three cents. The whole 300 is ninety.

💡 What people use it for

• Thumbnails for a directory or a link roundup, generated from the list you already have.
• Before and after shots of a redesign, same width, same settings, two runs.
• Visual regression checks on a schedule: same pages, same size, compare the images.
• Capturing one element cleanly, a pricing table or a chart, with a transparent background for a deck.
• Checking how a set of pages looks on a phone, dark mode on, without touching a device.
• Evidence and archiving, with finalUrl, statusCode and a timestamp on every row.

🚧 What it does not do

• Nothing behind a login. No cookies, no sign-in, no sessions.
• 300 pages per run. Split a longer list, or schedule it.
• The page is frozen once it has painted, so content that arrives very late can be missing. Raise delayMs or use load or networkidle when that matters.
• Height and size ceilings. 20,000 pixels of page by your setting, 16,000 pixels a side at the encoder, and the total megabytes you allowed.
• No PDF output. PNG and JPEG only.
• No text extraction. For the words on the page, use the crawler linked below.
• It cannot make a site render. A page that refuses gives you the image of the refusal, free.
• Only the first entry in your own server list is used.

🧭 Which site tool do you need?

If you want	Use
Pictures of pages	This one
The same pages as text, Markdown and chunks	Website Intelligence Crawler
Repositories and developer profiles	GitHub Scraper
Package metadata and download counts	npm + PyPI Package Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

How do I get rid of the cookie banner? Put its CSS selector into Remove these elements. Open the site, inspect the banner, copy the id or class.

Why is my full-page shot cut off? It hit maxFullPageHeight. The row says truncated: true. Raise the ceiling, but remember an endless feed has no bottom.

Can I screenshot one element? Yes, with selector. Pair it with PNG and a transparent background to drop it straight into a design.

Where do the images live? In the run's key-value store, linked from screenshotUrl on every row. Download the ones you want to keep.

Why do two runs of the same page look different? Fonts, animations and ads settle at different speeds. Raise delayMs, or switch waitUntil to load, and the shots get more repeatable.

Is screenshotting a public page legal? It photographs public pages as a visitor sees them. What you do with the images afterwards is subject to copyright and the site's terms. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the address and the run ID. If a diagnostic row landed, its errorCode and details usually name the reason already.