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Developers and teams who need a powerful, real-time website screenshot API to capture web pages across devices and browsers for automation, monitoring, reporting, or integration into applications
About Browshot
Browshot is a real-time web page screenshot service and API that lets developers programmatically capture high-quality screenshots of any live website in multiple resolutions and device types, including desktop and mobile browsers supporting HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript rendering for accurate visual output. It provides a comprehensive REST API with simple and full feature sets, enabling automatic requests for screenshots, thumbnails of any size and ratio, and even full-page captures with configurable options like delay before capture, custom headers, and CSS selector targeting; results can be retrieved, hosted, and downloaded directly or automatically uploaded to AWS S3/CDN. Browshot supports over 30 different browser configurations and offers open source libraries and command-line tools for easy integration with languages like Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, C#, and Node.js.
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Browshot
Founded: 2011
United States
www.browshot.com
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