Microshot

A simple API to automate screenshot capture

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A simple API to automate screenshot capture

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Screenshots and screen recording apps

Microshot turns any website into a screenshot. Capture screenshot just by passing the url query parameter against Microshot API. Start with 1000 screenshots/month free.

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Hi ProductHunt! ✋ I'm very excited to do my 3rd launch on PH! Today I'm launching Microshot - a screenshot API that lets you programmatically turn any website into a screenshot. It works in a way that you pass the URL to the API (together with other optional parameters), and the app visits the website and takes a screenshot. The screenshot is then uploaded to our CDN, where you can download it. Why I built it? There might be multiple services like this, but I challenged myself to build this project in one week in my free time. There is no rocket science, and I wanted to play around with the AWS Lambda and see how that would work in a real-world use case. Since I built that project last year, I launched it on ProductHunt for free today. What are the use cases? 1. Website and mobile app testing: Developers can use screenshot API to take screenshots of web pages or mobile apps at various stages of development to ensure that they are rendering correctly and that the user interface is working as intended. 2. Monitoring and analysis: Screenshot API can be used for monitoring and analysis purposes, such as tracking changes to websites or apps, detecting errors or bugs, or identifying security vulnerabilities. 3. Content creation: Creating tutorials or instructional materials. Microshot can help automate capturing screenshots, saving time and effort for content creators needing multiple screenshots for their work. 4. Creating thumbnails: Microshot can help automate the process of generating thumbnails, saving time and effort for developers and content creators who need to create many. The service is entirely free. You can take up to 1k screenshots/month for now. I would love to hear your feedback about it, and I can't wait to see what you do with it 🚀

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3yr ago

@takeittt The 1 topic is important for me now;D

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3yr ago

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@andrii_kosenko cool! Let me know if you have additional questions or if I can help in any way 🙂

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3yr ago

@takeittt Congrats on the launch. Have you used puppeteer on lambda to generate the screenshot? I am curious because I tried to run puppeteer on lambda, but it hasn't gone well. What is the pricing after 1000 free requests?

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3yr ago

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@dineshan_sithamparanathan yes. I didn't think about the pricing yet. I just set a limit to not exceed my funds on AWS. I can increase it for you for free if you need it now.

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3yr ago

@takeittt That's sweet of you. If we need we will. Thank you

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3yr ago

hi there are tons of apis like this one. how is it different from others? congratulations on the launch

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3yr ago

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@naveed_rehman thanks. That's true, to be honest, there is probably no difference. It was an outcome of exploring new things :) And if this can help anyone in some way, then that's perfect. I felt I should not keep it for myself if it's a working project. Maybe it will be open source in the future. I don't know yet :)

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3yr ago

@takeittt excellent 👌 keep up the good work 😊

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3yr ago

Great idea, congratulations! btw can I configure the environment, like browser, window resolution, etc?

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3yr ago

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@alexey_yar thanks! you can customize width and height of the viewport. See all options here https://docs.microshot.io/endpoi... It only supports Chrome browser

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3yr ago

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Hi @takeittt Congratulations on your PH launch 🥳 I am really excited to try it, however, there is just one question. Since you are capturing from a URL what is the image resolution? and is there any parameter where we can set that? Actually, I need to capture a few SS with really high resolution 😅 Maybe microshot can help me xD

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3yr ago

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@_salman thanks! you can customize the resolution, by default it's 1920x1080. See all the parameters here https://docs.microshot.io/endpoi...

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3yr ago