Website Screenshot & URL to PDF: Bulk Capture

Website Screenshot & URL to PDF takes a list of web addresses and saves each page as a full-page website screenshot (PNG, JPEG or WebP) or as a PDF. It works as a bulk screenshot API and URL to PDF converter: you get one result row per URL with a link to the file, its size, the page title and, for a failed URL, the reason.

It accepts the same input as apify/screenshot-url, so you can switch without changing your input or integration. This is an independent Actor. It is not made or endorsed by Apify.

What data can Website Screenshot & URL to PDF extract?

Files go to the run's default key-value store. Each URL gets one row in the dataset.

Field	Meaning
url	The URL you gave.
finalUrl	The URL after redirects.
status	success, failed, site_blocked (the site refused the browser), not_allowed (this Actor does not capture that URL) or skipped (your run's cost limit was reached).
httpStatus	The HTTP status of the page.
format and device	The file type and device preset used.
width, height	Image size in pixels. With pixel ratio 2 or 3, this is 2 or 3 times the CSS size. Empty for PDF.
bytes	File size.
screenshotKey	Record key in the run's key-value store.
screenshotUrl	Link to the file. It works without an API token.
title	The page title.
truncated	true if the page was taller than maxHeight and only the top part was captured.
hiddenOverlays	How many banners and pop-ups were hidden.
warnings	Things worth checking, such as a page that never stopped loading.
capturedAt	When the capture finished.
error	Why the URL failed.

How to use Website Screenshot & URL to PDF

1. Open the Actor on Apify and add your pages to the URLs field. You can also point it at a text file of links with { "requestsFromUrl": "https://example.com/my-urls.txt" }. Exact duplicate URLs are captured once.
2. Choose a Format: PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF. For HTML to PDF, pick PDF and set the paper size (A4 or Letter), orientation and whether backgrounds are printed.
3. Choose a Device: desktop (1920x1080), laptop (1366x768), iPhone (390x844 at 3x), iPad (820x1180 at 2x), or custom width, height and pixel ratio. Switch Full page off to capture only the visible screen.
4. Optional: wait for the network to go quiet, for a CSS selector to appear, or for a fixed delay. Turn on Scroll to bottom for lazy-loaded images. Hide elements with CSS selectors, or add your own CSS.
5. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab for a table with a preview of each page, or download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Other options: cookie banner and pop-up hiding is on by default (best effort, nothing is clicked or accepted), and requests to 44 well-known ad and analytics services are blocked by default so heavy pages load faster. Both can be turned off. Up to 10 pages can be captured at once (maxConcurrency, 3 by default).

How much does it cost?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing, so you pay for captures and not for compute time.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.002 per GB of memory, charged once per run (the default 2048 MB is 2 GB, so $0.004)
Screenshot or PDF	$0.003 per successful capture

Failed, blocked, not-allowed and skipped URLs are free. 1,000 URLs that all succeed cost 1,000 x $0.003 + $0.004 = $3.004. If 50 of those fail or are blocked, you pay for 950 captures: $2.854. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops starting new captures when the limit is reached and marks the remaining URLs as skipped. The Pricing tab always shows the current prices.

Input example

{
    "urls": [
        { "url": "https://example.com" },
        { "url": "https://apify.com" }
    ],
    "device": "desktop"
}

A mobile JPEG of the visible screen only, after a specific element has loaded:

{
    "urls": [{ "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news" }],
    "format": "jpeg",
    "quality": 70,
    "device": "iphone",
    "fullPage": false,
    "waitForSelector": "main"
}

A PDF that looks like the page on screen:

{
    "urls": [{ "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot" }],
    "format": "pdf",
    "pdfFormat": "A4",
    "pdfMediaType": "screen"
}

The main settings and their defaults:

Field	Default	What it does
format	png	png, jpeg, webp or pdf.
fullPage	true	Capture the whole page. false captures the visible screen only.
device	desktop	desktop, laptop, iphone, ipad or custom.
quality	80	JPEG and WebP quality, 1 to 100.
maxHeight	15000	Full-page captures stop at this height in CSS pixels (30,000 at most), and the row is marked truncated.
waitUntil	networkidle2	load, domcontentloaded, networkidle2 or networkidle0.
waitForSelector		A CSS selector that must appear before capturing.
delay	0	Extra wait in milliseconds before capturing.
scrollToBottom	false	Scroll through the page first so lazy content loads.
hideCookieBanners	true	Hide consent banners and pop-ups.
blockAdsAndTrackers	true	Block common ad and analytics requests.
pdfMediaType	print	print uses the site's print stylesheet, screen looks like the page in a browser.
navigationTimeoutSecs	45	How long to wait for a page's HTML to load.

The Input tab in Console describes every field.

Output example

This is the first row of a real run on 2026-10-28 with the input above:

{
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
    "status": "success",
    "httpStatus": 200,
    "format": "png",
    "device": "desktop",
    "width": 1920,
    "height": 1080,
    "bytes": 119183,
    "screenshotKey": "example.com_b559c7edd3fb.png",
    "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/hVV9g82LLwXMHDw72/records/example.com_b559c7edd3fb.png?signature=1908V6IthxDL4S75a4r9J",
    "title": "Example Domain",
    "truncated": false,
    "hiddenOverlays": 0,
    "warnings": [],
    "capturedAt": "2026-10-28T21:58:19.614Z",
    "error": null
}

A blocked page gets a row like this, with no file and no charge. This one comes from a test run on 2026-10-21:

{
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com",
    "finalUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/",
    "status": "site_blocked",
    "httpStatus": 403,
    "format": "png",
    "device": "desktop",
    "width": null,
    "height": null,
    "bytes": null,
    "screenshotKey": null,
    "screenshotUrl": null,
    "title": null,
    "truncated": false,
    "hiddenOverlays": null,
    "warnings": [],
    "capturedAt": "2026-10-21T15:39:10.491Z",
    "error": "The site returned HTTP 403. This usually means it requires a login or blocks automated browsers. This Actor does not try to get around that."
}

Use cases

• Archive how a page looked on a given day, for compliance records or legal evidence.
• Turn a list of articles, invoices or documentation pages into PDFs with one run (HTML to PDF).
• Check a landing page on desktop, laptop, iPhone and iPad sizes before a release.
• Add visual thumbnails of websites to a directory, dashboard or report.
• Capture competitor pricing or product pages on a schedule and compare them over time.
• Produce screenshots for a QA report or a client deliverable.

FAQ

Can I switch from apify/screenshot-url?

Yes. Your existing input works as it is. This input, written for apify/screenshot-url, runs here without changes:

{
    "urls": [{ "url": "https://www.apify.com/" }],
    "format": "png",
    "waitUntil": "load",
    "viewportWidth": 1280,
    "scrollToBottom": true,
    "delayAfterScrolling": 2500,
    "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true },
    "selectorsToHide": ""
}

Result rows have url, screenshotUrl and screenshotKey, the field names that Actor uses. When you set viewportWidth and no device, your width is used. Pages are captured full-length by default, so set "fullPage": false for the visible screen only. The proxy field is accepted but ignored. To switch an API call or integration, replace the Actor ID with fernandosord/website-screenshot-pdf.

Which pages cannot be captured?

Public pages only. There is no input for cookies, logins or passwords, so a page behind a login is captured as the login page. These sites are never captured because their terms forbid automated access: linkedin.com, facebook.com, instagram.com, x.com, twitter.com and tiktok.com, including their short-link domains. Local and private network addresses are refused too. These rows have the status not_allowed and are free.

Why was a site blocked?

Sites that block automated browsers are reported, not bypassed. The Actor runs from Apify's servers, uses an unmodified headless Chrome and does not rotate IP addresses or use proxies. In a test run, nytimes.com returned HTTP 403, and that row was marked site_blocked and not charged. Some sites show their own error page with a normal HTTP 200 status. The Actor cannot tell that apart from the real page, so it is captured and charged. Check the preview column.

How reliable is cookie banner hiding?

It is best effort. It hides the containers of common consent tools and fixed overlays that cover the page. Banners from other tools, and consent pages that replace the whole site, can still appear. Use selectorsToHide for ones it misses.

What are the size and speed limits?

Very tall pages are cut at maxHeight (15,000 CSS pixels by default, 30,000 at most). WebP images cannot be taller than 16,383 pixels. Simple pages take about a second. In the 2026-10-28 test run above, two pages took under 8 seconds including start-up. Large marketing homepages took roughly 20 seconds each in earlier testing with the default 2 GB of memory. Sections that only appear while you scroll can be blank, so turn on scrollToBottom for those pages.

Why do fonts look slightly different?

Pages are rendered by Chrome on Linux, so fonts can look slightly different from macOS or Windows.

How long are the files kept?

For your Apify plan's storage retention period. Download them if you need them longer.

Can I call it from the API, Make, Zapier or n8n?

Yes. Every Apify Actor has an API, and the Make, Zapier and n8n integrations can start it and read the dataset. To get the results in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fernandosord~website-screenshot-pdf/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":[{"url":"https://www.python.org"}],"format":"jpeg","fullPage":false}'

Can I schedule it or use it from an AI agent?

Yes. Use Apify's Schedules to run it hourly, daily or weekly. AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server, which exposes Actors as tools.

Something went wrong. Where do I report it?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the URL and the input you used.

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