How to capture website screenshots with an API

Running your own headless browser fleet for screenshots means managing Chrome versions, memory leaks, timeouts, lazy loading, cookie banners and retina displays. A screenshot API turns all of that into one HTTP request.

Your first screenshot

Grab your API key from the ScreenshotBee dashboard and make a single request:

curl -X POST "https://screenshotbee.com/api/capture-screenshot" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://example.com", "type": "png", "full_page": true }'

Beyond the basics

Once the simple case works, the same API covers the harder ones:

• Full page captures that trigger lazy loaded content
• Device emulation for iPhones, iPads, Android phones and custom viewports
• Element specific screenshots using a CSS selector
• Wait conditions so single page apps finish rendering first
• Raw HTML input when the page you need is not public
• Video recording of the capture session for debugging

Automate it

Use scheduled captures to monitor pages daily or weekly without writing a cron job, or connect ScreenshotBee to 5,000+ apps through the Zapier integration.