Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Microlink 3.0
Browser as API
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Microlink 3.0 launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Turns any website into a screenshtot
2019 · microlink.io · its alternatives →
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I built EmbedPDF: an MIT-licensed, open-source PDF viewer that aims to match all of Adobe Acrobat’s paid features… for free. Already working: - Annotations (highlight, sticky notes, free text, ink) - True redaction (content actually removed) - Search, text selection, zoom, rotation - Runs fully in the browser, no server needed - Drop-in SDK for React, Vue, Preact, vanilla JS Why? Acrobat is heavy, closed, and pricey. I wanted something lightweight, hackable, and embeddable anywhere. Demo: https://app.embedpdf.com/ Website: https://www.embedpdf.com/ GitHub:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Link Preview API▲198Free API to get Open Graph data, title & images for any URL
Jul 2026 · exabase.io · its alternatives →
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Lighthouse 8.0▲330Analyze web apps & sites, collect modern performance metrics
2021 · developer.chrome.com · its alternatives →
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ReadMe Micro▲124Document your internal APIs and microservices with ease
2023 · micro.readme.com · its alternatives →
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microlight.js▲117Improves readability of code by highlighting
2016 · asvd.github.io · its alternatives →
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Optimize your website's performance
2023 · lighthouse-metrics.com · its alternatives →
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Highlight & summarize PDFs effortlessly with powerful tool
2024 · glasp.co · its alternatives →
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Thumbnails Cloud▲117The simplest API for generating file thumbnails
2019 · includable.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with botched rendering a lot of times. So I set out to simplify this chore by creating an AWS hosted HTML to PDF conversion API that's based on Chrome. This API will allow a dev to just send the HTML to our API and get a PDF in response without having to worry about running and managing Chrome somewhere in their infra. I just finished the first version of my landing page and hosted pdf generation API…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Auditing and performance for Progressive Web Apps
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, creator of EmbedPDF here. I recently posted my open-source PDF viewer here, and one thing I really value is that it runs completely offline. I started wondering if we could push that further: could we do full ML layout analysis (detecting tables, headers, columns) directly in the browser? To my surprise, it actually works. The catch: It is far from production-ready. It crashes on most phones, and on older computers, it can be incredibly slow. The why: I believe the future of document processing is local. Many users work with sensitive documents (bank statements, legal contracts) and…
2025 · embedpdf.com · its alternatives →
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Doczilla▲8Effortlessly create PDFs and screenshots based on your HTML.
2024 · doczilla.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built a REST API for capturing screenshots and generating PDFs from URLs. Why: I got tired of managing Puppeteer/Playwright in production. Memory leaks, zombie processes, Docker issues. So I wrapped it in an API. Stack: - Node.js + Fastify - Playwright (more stable than Puppeteer in my experience) - Self-hosted on Hetzner Features: - Screenshots: PNG, JPEG, WebP - PDFs: A4, Letter, custom sizes - Full-page capture, custom viewports - Cookie consent auto-accept - Lazy-load handling API example: curl -X POST…
Dec 2025 · screencraftapi.com · its alternatives →
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Create, edit and generate professional documents from your data. A hosted document automation platform with an embeddable visual template editor and PDF generation API.
2018 · pdfgeneratorapi.com · its alternatives →
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Easily embed Adobe PDF viewer within any web application
2020 · developer.adobe.com · its alternatives →
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