Website Screenshot Generator

Website Screenshot Generator: a picture of every page in your list, PNG or JPEG

Paste a list of addresses and you get an image of each page, plus a row carrying the link to that image, the final URL after redirects, the page title, the HTTP status, the dimensions and the file size.

You control what the camera sees: the first screen or the whole page stitched together, any width from 320 to 2,560 pixels, normal or retina density, light or dark, desktop or phone layout. CSS selectors let you delete the cookie banner and the chat bubble before the shutter fires, or photograph one element on its own.

Worth knowing before the first run. A page that answers 404 or 500 and still renders is a real screenshot and is charged like any other, with statusCode on the row to tell you. A page that refuses to render at all still gets its image stored and handed to you, and that one is not charged.

📸 What Website Screenshot Generator does

It opens each address in a real browser at the size you asked for, waits as long as you told it to, applies your CSS, and takes the picture. Images land in the run's key-value store and every row links straight to its own.

Full-page capture scrolls the page and stitches it into one tall image, up to the height ceiling you set, and marks truncated when it had to cut. Scrolling also happens on request without full-page capture, which is what makes lazy-loaded images below the fold actually appear.

The selector fields are where most of the work happens in practice. removeSelectors takes an element out of the layout, which is the one for cookie banners and pop-ups. hideSelectors makes it invisible but keeps its space, which is right for a sticky header you want gone without everything shifting up. selector narrows the shot to one element.

locale and timezone are passed to the browser, so a site that localises renders in the language and clock you asked for.

Duplicate addresses are dropped before anything renders, so a messy list does not cost twice.

📥 What you give it

{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://news.ycombinator.com"],
  "fullPage": true,
  "viewportWidth": 1440,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "quality": 80,
  "removeSelectors": ["#cookie-banner", ".intercom-launcher"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Leave urls empty and you get one sample row showing the shape, with no browser started and no screenshots charged.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "screenshot",
  "url": "https://example.com/",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/zBdffYZdgUJdUcRAq/records/screenshot-001-example.com.jpg?signature=9w6b5...",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-001-example.com.jpg",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "imageWidth": 1440,
  "imageHeight": 900,
  "format": "jpeg",
  "fullPage": false,
  "darkMode": false,
  "deviceScaleFactor": 1,
  "viewportWidth": 1440,
  "viewportHeight": 900,
  "pageHeight": 900,
  "truncated": false,
  "fileSizeBytes": 17536,
  "loadTimeMs": 1090,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:27:34.234Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

recordType and ok separate the three kinds of row. charged is the flag that marks a real screenshot apart from the sample and the diagnostics, rather than a receipt.

The table view has no errorCode column, so a failed row can look like a thin successful one. A BLOCKED row even carries an image. Filter on recordType when you are counting.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Website Screenshot Generator and click Try for free. 2. Put your addresses into Page addresses, one per line. 3. Set Maximum screenshots low for the first run, so you can check the framing before paying for 300 of them. 4. Add the cookie banner and chat bubble to Remove these elements. That one change improves more screenshots than any other setting here. 5. Click Start, then open the rows to see the images, or pull them from the key-value store.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.00 per 1,000 screenshots, which is $0.003 each. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per image taken. The sample row is not charged, nor are the diagnostics: a page that was refused, timed out with nothing to show, had no matching selector, or was skipped once the size budget ran out. A page that rendered is charged whatever its status code says.

Ten screenshots is three cents. The whole 300 is ninety.

💡 What people use it for

• Thumbnails for a directory or a link roundup, generated from the list you already have.
• Before and after shots of a redesign, same width, same settings, two runs.
• Visual regression checks on a schedule: same pages, same size, compare the images.
• Capturing one element cleanly, a pricing table or a chart, with a transparent background for a

deck.

• Checking how a set of pages looks on a phone, dark mode on, without touching a device.
• Evidence and archiving, with finalUrl, statusCode and a timestamp on every row.

🚧 What it does not do

• Nothing behind a login. No cookies, no sign-in, no sessions.
• 300 pages per run. Split a longer list, or schedule it.
• The page is frozen once it has painted, so content that arrives very late can be missing. Raise

delayMs or use load or networkidle when that matters.

• Height and size ceilings. 20,000 pixels of page by your setting, 16,000 pixels a side at the

encoder, and the total megabytes you allowed.

• No PDF output. PNG and JPEG only.
• No text extraction. For the words on the page, use the crawler linked below.
• It cannot make a site render. A page that refuses gives you the image of the refusal, free.
• Only the first entry in your own server list is used.

🧭 Which site tool do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

How do I get rid of the cookie banner? Put its CSS selector into Remove these elements. Open the site, inspect the banner, copy the id or class.

Why is my full-page shot cut off? It hit maxFullPageHeight. The row says truncated: true. Raise the ceiling, but remember an endless feed has no bottom.

Can I screenshot one element? Yes, with selector. Pair it with PNG and a transparent background to drop it straight into a design.

Where do the images live? In the run's key-value store, linked from screenshotUrl on every row. Download the ones you want to keep.

Why do two runs of the same page look different? Fonts, animations and ads settle at different speeds. Raise delayMs, or switch waitUntil to load, and the shots get more repeatable.

Is screenshotting a public page legal? It photographs public pages as a visitor sees them. What you do with the images afterwards is subject to copyright and the site's terms. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the address and the run ID. If a diagnostic row landed, its errorCode and details usually name the reason already.