Pageframe – Website Screenshot & PDF Generator

Turn any URL into a crisp screenshot (PNG/JPEG) or a print-ready PDF in one call. Full-page capture, custom viewports, retina/HiDPI scaling, and best-effort automatic cookie-banner dismissal so your images aren't covered by consent popups.

Price: $0.0015 per successful capture. Failed pages (timeouts, 4xx/5xx, DNS errors) are never charged.

Why choose Pageframe

	Pageframe
💵 Price	$1.50 per 1,000 captures, no monthly rental
🛡️ Pay only for success	Timeouts, DNS errors and 4xx/5xx pages cost $0
🍪 Clean shots	Cookie & consent banners dismissed automatically before capture
📄 Screenshots and PDFs	PNG, JPEG or print-ready PDF (A4, A3, Letter, Legal)
🔍 Retina quality	2x / 3x device scale for crisp images on any screen
⚙️ Real browser	Chromium renders React, Vue & Next.js pages correctly
🤖 AI-agent ready	Callable from Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor through Apify's MCP server

What you can use it for

• 🖼️ Visual monitoring – track how competitor or client pages look over time.
• 📄 PDF generation – invoices, reports, articles or landing pages as clean PDFs.
• 🔗 Link previews & thumbnails – generate real preview images for a directory or dashboard.
• 🧪 QA & regression testing – capture pages before/after a deploy.
• 📚 Archiving – keep a visual record of a page as it existed on a given date.

Features

• ✅ PNG, JPEG or PDF output, chosen per run
• ✅ Full-page or viewport-only capture
• ✅ Custom viewport size and device scale factor (2x/3x for retina)
• ✅ PDF page size control (A4, A3, Letter, Legal)
• ✅ Best-effort cookie-banner auto-dismiss (OneTrust, Cookiebot, common "Accept all" buttons)
• ✅ Optional wait-for-selector and extra delay for slow/animated pages
• ✅ Failed captures are never charged
• ✅ Runs on a real Chromium browser (Playwright) — renders JS-heavy pages correctly

How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste one or more URLs into URLs to capture.
3. Pick a format (png / jpeg / pdf) and adjust viewport / scale if you want retina output.
4. Click Start and open the Output tab — each row links directly to the image or PDF file.

Input example

{
  "urls": ["https://apify.com", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"],
  "format": "png",
  "fullPage": true,
  "deviceScaleFactor": 2,
  "blockCookieBanners": true
}

Field	Description
urls	One or more page URLs to capture
format	png, jpeg or pdf
fullPage	Capture the whole scrollable page (image formats only)
viewportWidth / viewportHeight	Browser viewport size in pixels
deviceScaleFactor	1 (default), 2 or 3 for retina/HiDPI
pdfPageFormat	A4, A3, Letter or Legal (PDF only)
blockCookieBanners	Best-effort auto-click common cookie "Accept" buttons first
waitForSelector	CSS selector to wait for before capturing
delaySec	Extra fixed wait (seconds) before capturing

Output example

{
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "status": "ok",
  "format": "png",
  "fileUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/capture-....png",
  "sizeBytes": 812345,
  "durationMs": 2140
}

Failed pages are returned with "status": "error" and an error message, and are never charged.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0015 per successfully captured page (image or PDF). No monthly rental, no charge for failed pages. Apify's free plan gives you monthly credits so you can try it for free.

Quick start in Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("siftwright/pageframe-screenshots").call(run_input={
    "urls": ["https://apify.com"],
    "format": "png",
    "fullPage": True,
    "deviceScaleFactor": 2,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["url"], item["status"], item.get("fileUrl"))

Use it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/siftwright~pageframe-screenshots/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":["https://apify.com"],"format":"png"}'

Works with Python and JavaScript API clients, Make, Zapier and n8n. AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can call it directly through Apify's MCP server.

FAQ

Does it work on JavaScript-heavy sites? Yes — it renders with a real Chromium browser (Playwright), so React/Vue/Next.js pages capture correctly, not just static HTML.

Can I get a transparent background or a specific element only? Not in v1 — this version captures the full page or viewport. Element-only capture and transparent backgrounds are on the roadmap.

Why wasn't I charged for a page? Timeouts, DNS failures and HTTP 4xx/5xx responses are never charged — you only pay for a page that actually rendered and was captured.

Something broke or you need a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab — we respond fast.