CurlShot Web App Overview

CurlShot is a screenshot API: one HTTP request turns a web page into an image, a PDF or a video.

WHAT IT DOES Send a URL, your own HTML, or Markdown. Get back a PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF, or an MP4, WebM or GIF of the page scrolling from top to bottom. Pages render in a real browser, so what you get is what a visitor sees.

WHY DEVELOPERS USE IT

• The whole page: lazy images are loaded on the way down
• Phones, tablets and desktops from ready-made device presets
• Clean captures: cookie banners, ads, trackers and chat bubbles removed first
• One element by CSS selector, dark mode, retina pixel density
• Pages behind a login, with your cookies or headers
• Caching, signed links for public pages, async jobs with webhooks, bulk runs of up to 100 URLs

BUILT FOR AI AGENTS A built-in MCP server (take_screenshot, list_devices), an OpenAPI 3.1 file, llms.txt and a markdown version of every docs page.

GOOD TO KNOW Public pages work out of the box. For pages behind a login, send cookies or headers with the request. Local and private network addresses are refused on purpose: send the HTML instead and it renders the same way.

PRICING Free: 100 screenshots a month, no card. Paid plans from $19 a month for 3,000. One successful render is one screenshot, whatever its size. Failed renders and cache hits are free. 14-day money-back on the first payment.

USE CASES

1. Link previews and thumbnails. Show a small image next to every link in your app, directory or newsletter. Cache it once and serve it from a signed link.
2. Open Graph images. Design a 1200×630 card in HTML and CSS, POST it, and use the PNG as your og:image.
3. Visual monitoring and regression checks. Capture the same pages on a schedule, on desktop and phone, and compare the images to spot broken layouts.
4. Archiving and compliance. Save web pages as PDFs with real text and working links, one at a time or in batches with webhooks, and keep your own copy.
5. AI agents that see the web. Connect the MCP server and the agent can call take_screenshot. Models that read images see the page itself.
6. Reports, invoices and certificates. Render Markdown or HTML to a styled PDF or image from your backend.