Screenshot Downloader

🧠 Screenshot Downloader

This Apify actor takes a list of URLs and captures full-page screenshots of each website. It saves screenshots as PNG images and provides links to the captured images. You can define proxy settings and optional selector waiting.

✅ Use Cases

📸 Capture screenshots from multiple websites

🖼️ Create visual archives of web pages

📊 Generate thumbnails for web monitoring

🔍 Monitor website visual changes over time

📥 Input Configuration

You can customize the actor using the following input fields:

{
  "requestListSources": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "handlePageTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "maxRequestRetries": 1,
  "useChrome": false
}

🧾 Fields Explained Field Type Description requestListSources array Required. Array of URLs to download. Each item can have optional userData with waitForSelector proxyConfiguration object Proxy settings - choose no proxy, Apify Proxy, or custom proxy URLs handlePageTimeoutSecs integer Optional. Maximum time to spend processing one page (default: 60) maxRequestRetries integer Optional. How many retries before giving up (default: 1) useChrome boolean Optional. Use real Chrome browser instead of Chromium (default: false)

📤 Output

The actor returns a dataset containing screenshot information for each URL. Each record includes the original URL, final URL (after redirects), page title, and link to the captured screenshot.

🧩 Sample Output

[
  {
    "url": "https://apify.com",
    "loadedUrl": "https://apify.com/",
    "title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform",
    "screenshotUrl": "storage/key_value_stores/default/a9bc5ea2-45d0-490e-8839-9d65968f88dc.png"
  }
]

🔒 Proxy Configuration

This actor supports flexible proxy configuration:

No proxy (default)

Apify Proxy for residential IPs

Custom proxy URLs

Default proxy settings:

{
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

🚀 How to Use

Open the actor in Apify Console

Click "Try actor" or create a new task

Add URLs to the requestListSources array

Configure proxy settings if needed

Run the actor

Download screenshot data in JSON, CSV, or XML format

⚙️ Advanced Input Example

{
  "requestListSources": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "userData": {
        "waitForSelector": ".content-loaded"
      }
    },
    {
      "url": "https://another-site.com"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  },
  "handlePageTimeoutSecs": 120,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "useChrome": true
}

🛠️ Tech Stack

🧩 Apify SDK — for actor and data handling

🕷️ Crawlee — for robust crawling and scraping

🌐 Puppeteer — for browser automation and rendering dynamic content

⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend environment