ScreenshotsCloud

Perfect Screenshots Anywhere

Get high quality real browser screenshots in seconds using our reliable CDN backed API service.

Get an API Key to start using this fast screenshot API service at ScreenshotsCloud.

Requirements

Tested against PHP 5.6+ and 7+

Earlier versions of PHP 5 will most likely work without issue.

Installation

Install via composer

composer require screenshotscloud/screenshotscloud

Once installed you can generate screenshot urls as follows:

<?php

define('SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_KEY', 'MY_SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_KEY');
define('SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_SECRET', 'MY_SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_SECRET');

$screenshotUrl = \ScreenshotsCloud\ScreenshotsCloud::screenshotUrl([
	"url" => "openai.com/research",
	"width" => 800
]);

// or supply credentials at generation

$screenshotUrl = \ScreenshotsCloud\ScreenshotsCloud::screenshotUrl([
	"url" => "openai.com/research",
	"width" => 800
], 'MY_SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_KEY', 'MY_SCREENSHOTSCLOUD_SECRET');

Parameters

These are the options you can use to customize your screenshot.

Parameter	Default	Description
url		Required. The website address that you want to take a screenshot of.
browser	fastest	Which browser to run the request on. chrome for Google Chrome, firefox for Mozilla Firefox, fastest to run the request on both browsers and return the request from the browser which renders the screenshot fastest. Defaults to fastest.
width	1920	Width of the thumbnail. This option is only valid for png or jpg format options.
viewport_width	1920	Width of the browser viewport this is the actual width of the page before we resize it for the thumbnail.
viewport_height	(1320)	Height of the browser viewport, if you do not give this parameter we will calculate it for you based on viewport_width in 16:10 ratio.
full_page	false	Capture a full length screenshot of the requested page. If the format is pdf this option will always be true.
format	png	Output the screenshot as a PNG (png), JPEG (jpg) image or PDF (pdf).
quality	95 (if format=jpg)	Set the jpeg quality of the screenshot if jpeg is set as the format.
delay	250	Amount of time to wait in milliseconds before taking a screenshot of the page after it is fully loaded. Maximum 60000 (1 minute), minimum 100.
cache_time	2592000	Amount of time in seconds to wait before taking a fresh screenshot for the same request. Maximum 2592000 (30 days), minimum 1.
force	false	Force a new screenshot to be taken with no cache.
user_agent	Recent Firefox or Chrome User Agent	Set the user agent this screenshot will identify as. Useful for identifying as a mobile or tablet browser or to identify as a specific browser if the website pretends it needs Internet Explorer.
trim	false	Trim the excess space around the resulting screenshot using the most top left pixel color, useful for SVG's.
language	en	Accept-Language header customization for websites that support it, set ja for Japanese, de for German etc.
cookie		Semi colon separated list of cookies e.g. fruit=apple; drink=tea
disable_javascript	false	Don't execute javascript on this page. Forces browser=firefox.
disable_images	false	Don't download images on this page. Forces browser=firefox.
timeout	300000	Amount of time in milliseconds to wait before taking the screenshot anyway. Maximum 300000 (5 minutes).
mobile	false	Shortcut to set pixel_ratio, user_agent, viewport_width, viewport_height and width to that of the latest iPhone.
pixel_ratio	1	Multiplier that sets the pixel density of the page relative to the resolution, useful for taking retina screenshots (2).
click_selector		Accepts valid DOM selector (#wantedselector). Rendered screenshot will only display contents of DOM selector.
wait_selector		Accepts valid DOM selector (.valid_selector > .another_class). We will not take the screenshot until .valid_selector appears on this screen and is not display:none; or timeout is reached.
clip_selector		Accepts valid DOM selector (e.g. .valid_selector:not(div)). Rendered screenshot will only display contents of DOM selector. This option is only valid for png or jpg format options.
hover_selector		Accepts valid DOM selector (e.g. #wantedselector). Mouse will be hovered over the first instance of the selector you specify. Forces browser=chrome.

More documentation about this package and other language implementations can be found at https://screenshots.cloud/documentation.

Support

Contact us at [email protected] if you have any issues or questions about this package.

Other implementations

Need an implementation for another language?

Language	Address
C#	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-cs
Java	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-java
Node.js	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-node
PHP	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-php
Python	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-python
Ruby	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-ruby
ColdFusion	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-coldfusion
Shell Script	https://github.com/ScreenshotsCloud/screenshotscloud-sh

ScreenshotsCloud is made by Brushd https://brushd.com/