fzaninotto/screenshot-as-a-service

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1096 stars · 232 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A self-hosted Node.js web service that renders PNG screenshots of websites using PhantomJS behind an Express HTTP API. It supports custom viewports, user agents, clipping, delays, HTTP auth, and callback-based async capture.

Use cases

• take a screenshot of a website via an HTTP request
• generate PNG thumbnails of web pages
• capture screenshots with a custom viewport size or user agent
• render page screenshots without JavaScript
• clip a screenshot to a specific region of a page
• get notified via callback when a screenshot is ready

When to choose

• you need a simple self-hosted URL-to-PNG screenshot API
• you want query-parameter-driven screenshot options like viewport, delay, and clipping
• you're maintaining a legacy Node.js stack that already uses PhantomJS

When to avoid

• you need modern browser rendering - PhantomJS is unmaintained and lacks modern CSS/JS support
• you need an actively maintained project - the last release was 2016
• you need high-throughput or sandboxed screenshot rendering

Facets

service · maturity abandoned

http-server image-processing web-scraping caching web-development developer-tools self-hosted screenshot phantomjs express headless-browser png automation nodejs web-server

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