Website Screenshot API — Full Page, PNG/JPG/PDF, Retina

URLs in, screenshots out. Render any web page to a full-page or viewport image (PNG or JPEG), or the whole page to a PDF — with retina scaling, a custom viewport, dark-mode emulation, single-element capture, and automatic consent-banner hiding. Each result comes back as a ready-to-use image URL.

• Full-page or viewport capture, PNG / JPEG / PDF
• Retina (2x) high-DPI output for crisp thumbnails and previews
• Custom viewport (width × height) — emulate desktop, tablet, or a fixed card size
• Dark mode via prefers-color-scheme: dark
• Element capture — pass a CSS selector to screenshot just one component
• Clean shots — common cookie/consent banners (OneTrust, Cookiebot, Usercentrics, …) hidden automatically; add your own with hideSelectors
• Honest pricing — you pay only for screenshots actually produced. Navigation errors and timeouts are reported and never charged

Input

{
    "urls": ["https://apify.com", "https://news.ycombinator.com"],
    "format": "png",
    "fullPage": true,
    "viewportWidth": 1280,
    "viewportHeight": 800,
    "deviceScaleFactor": 2,
    "darkMode": false,
    "waitUntil": "networkidle",
    "delayMs": 0
}

Output (one dataset item per URL)

{
    "url": "https://apify.com",
    "format": "png",
    "http_status": 200,
    "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/<id>/records/screenshot-001-apify-com.png",
    "key": "screenshot-001-apify-com.png",
    "bytes": 412034,
    "viewport": "1280x800@2x",
    "fullPage": true
}

screenshotUrl is a public link to the stored image/PDF — embed it, download it, or hand it straight to an LLM.

Pricing

One event: screenshot-captured — charged only when an image or PDF is produced. A page that fails to load, times out, or where the selector isn't found is reported with an error and not charged.

Typical uses

• Link previews / OG thumbnails for apps, chat, and dashboards
• Visual change monitoring and QA snapshots
• PDF archiving of articles, invoices, or receipts
• Feeding page images to vision LLMs for layout understanding
• Design galleries and competitor-page capture at retina quality

Works with AI agents

Exposed via Apify's MCP server — an agent can call "screenshot this URL full-page at retina" and get back an image URL in one step.

FAQ

Full-page PDF? format: "pdf" renders the entire page to PDF (the fullPage and selector options don't apply to PDF).

Bot-protected or geo-blocked pages? Turn on useApifyProxy.

Lazy-loaded content missing? Increase delayMs, or set waitUntil: "networkidle" (the default).

Bulk? Pass many URLs; each is one dataset row and one charge, failures never charged.