Website Screenshot API — Full Page, Mobile & PDF

Turn any list of URLs into full-page screenshots (PNG, JPEG) or PDFs. Desktop, tablet or mobile. Cookie banners hidden. You pay only for screenshots that succeed.

You give	You get, per URL
["apify.com", "https://example.com/pricing"]	A public link to the image or PDF, plus page title, HTTP status, page height and file size — in one table you can export to CSV, Excel or JSON

What it's for

• Visual monitoring: schedule it daily and keep a visual history of your pages, competitors' pricing pages or landing pages.
• Reports and audits: attach screenshots of client websites to SEO, design or accessibility reports.
• Mobile checks: see how a page renders on a phone or tablet without owning one.
• Archiving and evidence: save a page as PDF or PNG with a timestamp (capturedAt).
• AI agents: give your agent eyes — call this Actor via the Apify API or MCP and pass screenshotUrl to a vision model.

Why this one

• ✅ Pay per successful screenshot. Timeouts, 404s, blocked pages and invalid URLs cost you nothing. No surprise compute bills.
• ✅ Full page, done right. Scrolls the page first so lazy-loaded images actually appear, then captures the whole length.
• ✅ Cookie banners hidden (OneTrust, Cookiebot, Didomi, Usercentrics and custom ones) with CSS — nothing is clicked or accepted.
• ✅ Desktop, Desktop HD, tablet and mobile presets, custom viewport, dark mode.
• ✅ PNG, JPEG or PDF. Screenshot a single element with a CSS selector (e.g. .pricing-table).
• ✅ Hide anything you don't want in the picture: chat widgets, sticky headers, ads.
• ✅ Parallel: 4 pages at a time by default, up to 20.

How to use

1. Paste your URLs (one per line — bare domains like apify.com work too).
2. Pick format and device. Defaults: JPEG, desktop 1280 px, full page.
3. Click Start. Open the Screenshots tab to see thumbnails, or download the table.

Via API (JavaScript):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('<username>/website-screenshot').call({
    urls: ['https://apify.com', 'https://example.com'],
    device: 'mobile',
    format: 'jpeg',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((i) => i.screenshotUrl));

Output

One row per URL:

{
    "url": "https://apify.com/",
    "finalUrl": "https://apify.com/",
    "httpStatus": 200,
    "title": "Apify: Marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI",
    "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/apify-com-e99c9a65d70a.jpg",
    "format": "jpeg",
    "device": "desktop",
    "fullPage": true,
    "viewportWidth": 1280,
    "pageWidth": 1280,
    "pageHeight": 10036,
    "bytes": 312804,
    "captureMs": 262,
    "consentWall": false,
    "error": null,
    "capturedAt": "2026-09-23T14:03:11.402Z"
}

Failed pages get a row too, with error filled in (e.g. page returned HTTP 404) — and no charge.

Files are stored in the run's key-value store. They are kept according to your Apify data retention settings; download them if you need them longer.

Pricing

$8 per 1,000 successful screenshots ($0.008 each) plus $0.005 per run for starting the browser. Only screenshots that were actually produced are charged.

Example: a daily run with 20 pages for a month = 600 screenshots + 30 runs ≈ $4.95.

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
urls	—	Pages to capture
format	jpeg	jpeg, png or pdf
device	desktop	desktop (1280×800), desktop-hd (1920×1080), tablet (820×1180), mobile (412×915)
fullPage	true	Whole page, or only the visible viewport
scrollToBottom	true	Scroll first so lazy images load
hideCookieBanners	true	Hide cookie/consent pop-ups with CSS
delayMs	1000	Extra wait before capture
waitUntil	load	load, domcontentloaded or networkidle
waitForSelector	—	Wait for an element before capturing
elementSelector	—	Capture just one element
hideSelectors	—	Elements to hide
darkMode	false	Request the dark color scheme
viewportWidth / viewportHeight	device	Custom size
quality	80	JPEG quality
timeoutSecs	60	Per-page timeout
maxHeight	20000	Cut full-page screenshots at this height (px)
maxConcurrency	4	Pages in parallel

Limitations — read before you buy

• Public pages only. No logins, no cookies you supply.
• We respect website rules. Pages disallowed by the site's robots.txt and pages that refuse automated access (HTTP 401/403/429) are reported as errors and not charged. The Actor never tries to get around CAPTCHAs or bot checks — if a site shows one instead of its content, that is what the screenshot shows.
• "Accept or subscribe" walls are not removed. Some publishers (e.g. many European news sites) require you to accept tracking or pay before showing content. That is a condition of access, so the Actor leaves it visible and sets consentWall: true so you can filter those rows.
• Full-page screenshots are cut at 20,000 px by default (maxHeight, up to 50,000). Endless-scroll feeds are captured as far as they have loaded.
• Videos are not loaded (they don't show in a still image anyway).

FAQ

Is there a free alternative? Apify's own "Website Screenshot Generator" has no Actor fee, but you pay the compute time — which depends on how slow each page is, and failed or timed-out pages cost the same. Here the price is fixed upfront, failures are free, and you get mobile/tablet views, PDF, element screenshots and cookie-banner hiding.

Can I use it from an AI agent? Yes. It's a plain pay-per-event Actor with a small input, so it works through the Apify MCP server and API.

Something doesn't look right? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the URL and settings.