This is an outdated version of the Screenshot API. Please refer to Latest Version Documentation for the greatest functionality.

Introduction

Restpack Screenshot API is an easy to use RESTful web service that can capture screenshots of live web pages and deliver the results in several formats. The service sits on a fully functional browser rendering engine with rich html / css / js capabilities.

Quick Start

Here are some code samples you can use. Don't forget to obtain a token here.

http --form POST https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  x-access-token:TOKEN \
  url=http://google.com \
  json=truecurl --request POST \
  --url https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN' \
  --data 'url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' },
  form: { url: 'http://google.com', json: true } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'
request.body = "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

payload = "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true"

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("POST", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture"

	payload := strings.NewReader("url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
request.AddParameter("undefined", "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .body("url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true")
  .asString();

You can find detailed usage information below.

Authentication

With each API call, you must provide an authentication token. To create a new access token please refer to user tokens page on your account dashboard.

You will need to use your Direct Access Token for simple API calls.

You can either provide the access token within the querystring or as a header.

If you wish to use the querystring method. Provide the token as access_token querystring parameter. As in https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?access_token={TOKEN}
In case you want to use a header, please provide the access token in X-Access-Token header.

Errors

Access token errors are represented in 4xx class HTTP errors.

401 - in case no access token is provided.
402 - when the account balance is not sufficient for this API call.
403 - when the access token is not valid / revoked.

Response Modes

By default, the API returns the raw image itself. This is the easiest way to consume the API. You can stream the result back to a file, to a web request or any other storage service. Meanwhile, it is possible to receive a JSON response using mode: json parameter.

When you request a JSON response, API will return a JSON object with a publicly accesible URL to the resulting screenshot image. You can use this image directly on your websites or access the file from this URL and save it elsewhere. Using this URL is not counted against your API call limits and it is being hosted over our CDN servers.

JSON responses simply contain an image URL and a cached field to indicate if the image is being served from cache:

{
  "image": "http://cdn.restpack.io/...",
  "cached": true
}

Endpoint

Capture and return a screenshot

In order to capture a screenshot, you simply need to invoke a GET request on the following URL.

All parameters should be passed in querysting.

GEThttps://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture

Parameters

It is required to provide one of url or html parameters as the document source.

urlurl	The URL of web page, including the protocol that you want to capture. Example: http://example.com
htmlstring	Raw HTML string of a page that you want to capture. Example: <p>Test</p>
access_tokenstring	Your personal access token for API access. Example: XXXXXXXX
jsonboolean	Return a JSON response with the resulting image's URL instead of the image itself. Default: false
modeenum	Capturing mode. Please see below for details. Default: fullpagePattern: fullpage \| viewport \| element
formatenum	Preferred image output format. If you need a raw html string you can pass html as format Default: pngPattern: jpg \| png \| pdf \| html
widthinteger	Preferred viewport width in pixels. Default: 1280Min: 320Max: 2000
heightinteger	Preferred viewport height in pixels. Default: 1024Min: 160
thumbnail_widthinteger	In case you want a thumbnail image, provide a preferred width. Min: 10Max: 3000
thumbnail_heightinteger	Preferred thumbnail height, requires thumbnail_width to be set, unbounded if omitted. Min: 10Max: 3000
cssstring	Additional CSS string to be injected into the page before render.
jsstring	Additional JS string to be injected into the page before render.
delaynumber	Time in milliseconds to delay capture after page load. Default: 500Max: 10000
ttlnumber	Time in milliseconds for the resulting image to be cached for further requests. Default: 1 dayMax: 1 week
freshboolean	Force rendering a new screenshot disregarding the cache status. Default: false
user_agentstring	Custom user-agent header string for the web request. Default: Chrome Compatible User Agent
headersstring	Additional headers seperated with newline Example: X-Test: header\nAccept-Type: html
element_selectorstring	A CSS selector to be used with element rendering mode.
retinaboolean	Generate retina sized screen capture (2x device pixel ratio). Default: false
emulate_mediaenum	Force CSS media emulation for print or screen. Default: screenPattern: screen \| print
allow_failedboolean	By default, any response from remote server outside http 200-299 status codes generates an error. If you wish to capture error pages, pass true. Default: false
waitenum	Wait until window load event fires or network becomes idle before capturing the page. By default we wait for the load event but if you are capturing pages with async content / lazy loaded images etc, waiting for network might work better. Third option is dom, which basically waits for domready event on the main window. Default: loadPattern: load \| network \| dom
shutterstring	Wait until a DOM element matching the provided css selector becomes present on the page. You can control when you want to capture the page using this parameter. The process times out after 10 seconds. Example: h1.someclass

POSThttps://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture

POST mode accepts the exact same parameters but you need to use a JSON or url encoded body. access_token parameter still needs to be passed in the querystring or via x-access-token header.

Request & Response Sample:

http --form POST https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  x-access-token:TOKEN \
  url=http://google.com \
  json=truecurl --request POST \
  --url https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN' \
  --data 'url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' },
  form: { url: 'http://google.com', json: true } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'
request.body = "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

payload = "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true"

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("POST", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture"

	payload := strings.NewReader("url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
request.AddParameter("undefined", "url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .body("url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&json=true")
  .asString();

{
  "image": "http://cdn.restpack.io/...",
  "cached": true
}

Render Modes

Full Page

This is the default operation mode of the API. You can control the width of captured viewport using width parameter. height parameter sets the viewport height and might change how sites behave.

For example, if you wish to capture with an iPhone 6 viewport size, the width parameter should be set 375 and width 667. While using mobile viewports, don’t forget to also provide a user agent header.

The engine will figure out the complete height of the page and return the entire screen capture. height parameter itself does not restrict the final image size. If the page height is larger than 16.000 pixels, the render will be restricted to the first 16.000 pixels.

Note that using png format with large pages may yield huge files and degrade rendering performance. We suggest using jpg files in case you are expecting renders to be big.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: { url: 'http://google.com', width: '1280', format: 'jpg' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&width=1280&format=jpg")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Viewport

This mode restricts the rendered image to supplied viewport size (1280x1024 by default). You can think of this as an actual screen capture of a desktop with full screen browser. Whatever content outside the viewport will not be captured.

Note that this is not to create specific size thumbnails of web pages. For that purpose please check Thumbnails section. When you specify a small viewport, websites might degrade to mobile sites, response web pages will respond by shrinking and if the content is smaller than the viewport, you might not receive an image in exact size of the viewport.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: 
   { url: 'http://google.com',
     mode: 'viewport',
     width: '640',
     height: '480' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=viewport&width=640&height=480")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Element

If you wish to capture a specific element within the page (maybe you want to have a chart captured, or the list of latest headlines, etc.) you can specify a CSS Selector for that element using element_selector parameter and selecting mode: element. In this mode, the page will be rendered in specified viewport size (1280x1024 by default) but only the rectangle of requested element will be captured.

If the element is not found, you will receive an error.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: 
   { url: 'http://google.com',
     mode: 'element',
     element_selector: '#container .chart' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&mode=element&element_selector=%23container%20.chart")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Features

Thumbnails

The API will return a full size render by default. If you want to generate smaller thumbnail images, provide a thumbnail_width parameter. This will ensure that the resulting image will have the specified width.

If you omit the thumbnail_height parameter, it will be autmatically determined according to specified width. If you also provide a thumbnail_height then the image will be cropped to the strictly specified thumbnail size.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: 
   { url: 'http://google.com',
     thumbnail_width: '250',
     thumbnail_height: '250' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&thumbnail_width=250&thumbnail_height=250")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Formats

Restpack HTML to Screenshot API can generate JPG, PNG and PDF files. The default is PNG with losless compression. The JPG output provides the smaller sizes but has a fixed 80% quality setting.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: { url: 'http://google.com', format: 'png' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&format=png")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Delay

By default, capturing engine waits for the page load and then 2 more seconds for initial javascripts to settle their rendering. You can control this duration using delay parameter (in milliseconds) from instantaneous to 10 seconds.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: { url: 'http://google.com', delay: '5000' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&delay=5000")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

TTL

The API caches captured screenshots up to a specified time period. If you request a screenshot of a previously cached web page, result will be provided from the cache. It is possible to control the duration of cache using ttl parameter (in milliseconds)

In addition to setting a ttl, it is possible to use fresh=true prameter to invalidate cache and capture a new screenshot.

http GET 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000' \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request GET \
  --url 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000' \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  qs: { url: 'http://google.com', ttl: '60000' },
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com&ttl=60000")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .asString();

Headers

While the service uses reasonable defaults for the request headers, you can customize them as you wish.

user_agent parameter customizes the User-Agent header.
headers parameter is the freeform one. You can pass any string containing headers seperated by \n.

echo '{ "url": "http://google.com", "json": true, user_agent: "MyBot 1/2", headers: "Cookie: name=value\nX-Custom-Header: custom" }' |  \
  http POST https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  x-access-token:TOKENcurl --request POST \
  --url https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture \
  --header 'x-access-token: TOKEN' \
  --data '{ "url": "http://google.com", "json": true, user_agent: "MyBot 1/2", headers: "Cookie: name=value\nX-Custom-Header: custom" }'var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture',
  headers: { 'x-access-token': 'TOKEN' },
  body: '{ "url": "http://google.com", "json": true, user_agent: "MyBot 1/2", headers: "Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom" }' };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = 'TOKEN'
request.body = "{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyimport http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("restpack.io")

payload = "{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }"

headers = { 'x-access-token': "TOKEN" }

conn.request("POST", "/api/screenshot/v3/capture", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "TOKEN")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-access-token: TOKEN"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}var client = new RestClient("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("x-access-token", "TOKEN");
request.AddParameter("undefined", "{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://restpack.io/api/screenshot/v3/capture")
  .header("x-access-token", "TOKEN")
  .body("{ \"url\": \"http://google.com\", \"json\": true, user_agent: \"MyBot 1/2\", headers: \"Cookie: name=value\\nX-Custom-Header: custom\" }")
  .asString();