Website Screenshot API – Full-Page, Mobile & PDF

Take clean screenshots of any website in bulk: full-page or viewport, desktop or real mobile-device emulation, a single element, or a PDF, without cookie banners and ads. Paste URLs, click Start, download the images.

What can you use it for?

• Visual monitoring & archiving: schedule daily captures of your site or competitors' pages.
• Link previews & thumbnails for directories, newsletters and reports.
• Mobile/desktop QA: check how pages render on iPhone, Pixel, iPad and desktop.
• Competitor research: capture just the pricing table or hero section with a CSS selector.
• Compliance & evidence: PDF snapshots of pages with a timestamp.
• AI & datasets: generate page images for vision models.

Features

Feature	This Actor	Typical screenshot Actors
Full page + viewport	✅	✅
Device presets (iPhone 15 Pro, Pixel 7, iPad Pro, desktop HiDPI)	✅	Sometimes
Capture a single element (CSS selector)	✅	Rarely
Hide cookie banners + block ads	✅	Rarely
Dark mode, custom CSS & JavaScript	✅	Rarely
PDF output	✅ optional	Separate Actor
Retries with longer waits, parallel capture	✅	Varies
Failed pages are free	✅	❌ usually charged

How to use

1. Add one or more URLs.
2. Optionally pick a device, full page, element selector, cookie-banner hiding, dark mode or PDF.
3. Click Start. Each page becomes a dataset row with a link to the image (and PDF) in the run's storage.

Example input

{ "urls": [{ "url": "https://apify.com" }, { "url": "https://www.wikipedia.org" }],
  "device": "iphone", "fullPage": true, "hideCookieBanners": true, "blockAds": true, "savePdf": false }

Example output

{ "url": "https://www.wikipedia.org", "title": "Wikipedia", "statusCode": 200, "device": "iphone", "width": 393, "height": 659,
  "fullPage": true, "format": "png", "bytes": 178011,
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/screenshot-8d1d8a3956ab" }

Input reference

Field	Default	Description
urls	–	Pages to capture
device	custom	custom, desktop, iphone, pixel, ipad
width / height	1280 × 800	Viewport for custom
fullPage	false	Whole scrollable page
selector	–	Capture only this element
format / quality	png / 80	PNG or JPEG
hideCookieBanners / blockAds / darkMode	false	Clean-up and appearance
customCss / customJs	–	Injected before capture
savePdf / pdfOnly	false	PDF output
waitUntil / delayMs / timeoutSecs	load / 1000 / 45	Loading behaviour
maxConcurrency / maxRetries / retryExtraDelayMs	3 / 2 / 3000	Throughput & reliability
proxyConfiguration	off	Optional Apify Proxy for sites that block cloud IPs

Pricing

Pay per result, with no platform usage fees on top. See the Pricing tab for the current price.

• 100 screenshots ≈ $0.20 · 1,000 screenshots ≈ $2 · 10,000 screenshots ≈ $20 (at $2 per 1,000)
• PDFs: $2 per 1,000, only when enabled.
• Pages that fail to load are not charged. They're listed in the run's FAILED record. The Apify Free plan's monthly credits cover a few thousand screenshots.

Integrations

• API: run via the Apify API or the JavaScript/Python clients, and get results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.
• No-code: native Apify integrations for Make, Zapier and n8n, plus Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks and schedules.
• AI agents: available through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT and other agents can call it as a tool.

FAQ

Why is the cookie banner still visible on some sites? Hiding covers the major consent platforms. For others, add customCss like #my-banner{display:none!important}. The page looks unfinished. Increase delayMs or set waitUntil to networkidle. Retries already wait longer automatically. A site blocks the screenshot. Enable Apify Proxy (residential works best for strict sites). How do I get the image files? Use screenshotUrl in each row, or open the run's key-value store (the "Screenshots" output tab). Is it legal? Capturing public pages is generally fine. Respect copyright and each site's terms when you reuse the images.

Related Actors from the same developer

• ⚡ Bulk PageSpeed & Lighthouse Checker: Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores for many URLs.
• 🗺️ Sitemap URL Extractor: every URL from a site's sitemaps, with new/removed URL monitoring.

Workflow tip: extract URLs with the Sitemap Extractor → audit them with the PageSpeed Checker → screenshot the flagged pages.

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