Website Screenshot Generator - Full Page PNG and JPEG

Paste a list of web addresses and get a screenshot of each page, full page or first screen, as PNG or JPEG: plus a row carrying the link to the image, the final URL after redirects, the page title, the HTTP status, the real image 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 take out 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 image per page, and one row per page with its link, final URL, title, status code, dimensions and file size
Ceiling	300 pages per run, inside a total image size budget you set
Account needed	None
Price	$3.00 per 1,000 screenshots ($0.003 each) on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 1,600

🔍 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.

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 do most of the work. 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 data you get from each screenshot

What you get	Field
A link to the image, and its name in the key-value store	screenshotUrl, screenshotKey
What you asked for, and where it ended up after redirects	url, finalUrl
The page title and the main document's status code	title, statusCode
The real image size, read from the file	imageWidth, imageHeight
How tall the page was, and whether the shot was cut	pageHeight, truncated
File size and how long the page took	fileSizeBytes, loadTimeMs
The settings this shot was taken with	format, fullPage, darkMode, deviceScaleFactor, viewportWidth, viewportHeight

▶️ How to take screenshots of a list of websites

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.

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

💰 How much does it cost to take a screenshot?

$3.00 per 1,000 screenshots on the Free plan, $2.95 on Starter, $2.90 on Scale and $2.85 on Business. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 1,600.

You pay per image taken. The sample row is not charged, nor are the diagnostics: a page that was refused, had no matching selector, could not be reached, or was skipped once the size budget ran out. A page that rendered is charged whatever its status code says.

Timeouts split two ways. A page that hits navigationTimeoutMs with enough on screen is still captured, and charged like any other. One with nothing usable gets an uncharged NAV_TIMEOUT row.

If you set a maximum charge for a run, it stops taking pictures once that is reached.

📥 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	Default	What it is
urls	none; the box starts with two examples	The pages, one per line. A bare domain works. Up to 300.
maxItems	the whole list; the form starts at 10	Hard stop on how many pages this run photographs, 1 to 300. An API call that leaves it out photographs the whole list. 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	en-US, none	A language such as de-DE, and a zone such as Europe/Berlin or America/New_York.
concurrency	3	Pages rendered at once, 1 to 6. Drop to 1 for a site that objects.
useProxy	false	Optional.
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.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 3 October 2026, with the image link cut short. The page was taller than the window, so pageHeight is 1215 while the image, without full-page capture, is 900.

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "screenshot",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/screenshot-002-news.ycombinator.com.jpg?signature=...",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-002-news.ycombinator.com.jpg",
  "finalUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
  "title": "Hacker News",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "imageWidth": 1440,
  "imageHeight": 900,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "fullPage": false,
  "darkMode": false,
  "deviceScaleFactor": 1,
  "viewportWidth": 1440,
  "viewportHeight": 900,
  "pageHeight": 1215,
  "truncated": false,
  "fileSizeBytes": 123695,
  "loadTimeMs": 1525,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T00:26:08.195Z"
}

Field	How to read it
screenshotUrl	A direct link to the image in the run's key-value store. Download what you want to keep.
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 a full-page shot.
fileSizeBytes, loadTimeMs	Useful for spotting the page that is quietly eating your size budget.

🧾 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; read it as that, not as 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 NOT_SERVED row even carries an image. Filter on recordType when you are counting.

Code	What it means
NOT_SERVED	This page was not served this run. Re-run it later. Until 12 October 2026 this code was called BLOCKED.
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.
STORAGE_FAILED	The image could not be saved.
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.
CHARGE_ERROR, UNEXPECTED_ERROR	Something went wrong in the run itself. Send us the run ID.

💡 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• It is not an official tool of any platform or company named on this page. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

🧭 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
A site's DNS, certificate, security headers and tech signals	Domain Inspector
What changed on a rival's pricing page or changelog since last week	SaaS Competitor Monitor

❓ Questions people ask

How do I get rid of the cookie banner in a screenshot?

Put its CSS selector into Remove these elements. Open the site, inspect the banner, copy the id or class.

Why is my full-page screenshot 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.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/website-screenshot-generator. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price. Send maxItems from code, or the whole list is photographed.

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.