Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to ScreenCraftAPI

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…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1
   An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots▲208

   A self-hosted API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots. - goodreasonai/ScrapeServ

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   ScreenshotOne▲493

   The screenshot API you can finally rely on

   2023 · screenshotone.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Enpose▲456

   The simple screenshot bot

   2017 · enpose.co · its alternatives →

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   Convert any screenshot into clean HTML code using GPT Vision (OSS tool)▲358

   Hey everyone, I built a simple React/Python app that takes screenshots of websites and converts them to clean HTML/Tailwind code. It uses GPT-4 Vision to generate the code, and DALL-E 3 to create placeholder images. To run it, all you need is an OpenAI key with GPT vision access. I’m quite pleased with how well it works most of the time. Sometimes, the image generations can be hilariously off. See here for a replica of Taylor Swift’s Instagram page: https://streamable.com/70gow1 I initially had a hard time getting it to work on full page screenshots. GPT4 would code…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Doppio▲155

   HTML to PDF/image API

   2023 · doppio.sh · its alternatives →

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   ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading▲285

   Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…

   2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →

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   PDFMonkey▲164

   Automate your PDF generation, get the job done

   2023 · its alternatives →

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   Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots▲195

   ScreenChunk is an ultra-fast live Screen Capture studio and WebRTC screen recorder. Capture your desktop, crop 2D regions, and broadcast live streams with zero-knowledge AES-256-GCM chunk protection.

   2017 · screen.rip · its alternatives →

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   Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome▲129

   Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

   2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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    HeadlessTesting▲4

    Chrome as a Service - Generate Screenshots and PDFs

    2020 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Microshot▲179

    A simple API to automate screenshot capture

    2023 · microshot.io · its alternatives →

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    ApiFlash▲130

    A simple screenshot API to automate URL to image conversion.

    2019 · apiflash.com · its alternatives →

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    SnapAPI

    Screenshot & PDF API for Developers

    Mar 2026 · snapapi-production-4f80.up.railway.app · its alternatives →

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    Screendot▲127

    A screenshot API for developers

    2022 · screendot.io · its alternatives →

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    DeploySentinel Recorder▲95

    Automatically generate Playwright & Puppeteer scripts

    2022 · hyperdx.io · its alternatives →

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    ScreenshotAPI▲22

    Create pixel perfect screenshots with this API

    2020 · screenshotapi.net · its alternatives →

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    Screenia▲96

    Capture any URL in seconds

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Capture▲113

    Fast browser API to capture, extract, & create from web

    2025 · capture.page · its alternatives →

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    Capture by Neutron Creative▲83

    Web screenshots via API, made easy & open-source.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Browserku▲89

    API for web scraping, screenshots, PDF generation and more

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    GetScreenshot▲87

    Powerful & affordable screenshot API with Zapier Integration

    2021 · getscreenshotapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript▲78

    Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated Website Screenshots Made Easy▲15

    Automated Website Screenshots and more! Miniature.io is a cloud scale API for capturing online resources as images. Features include Website Screenshots, Image Thumbnailer and PDF Generator.

    2019 · miniature.io · its alternatives →

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    Screenshothis▲16

    Automate website screenshots instantly with our powerful API

    2025 · its alternatives →

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