/api/shot

Screenshot any URL to PNG.

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curl "https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot?url=https://example.com&width=1280&height=720" --output shot.png

All the options

Param	Default	Description
`url` required	—	Full http(s) URL to screenshot. Protocol is added if missing.
`device`	desktop	`desktop`, `mobile`, or `tablet`. Sets viewport + user-agent.
`width`	1280	Viewport width in px (clamped 100–3840).
`height`	720	Viewport height in px (clamped 100–2160).
`full`	false	Capture the full scrollable page, not just the viewport.
`wait`	0	Extra ms to wait after page load (max 8000). Use for SPAs that hydrate.
`dark`	false	Emulate `prefers-color-scheme: dark`.
`format`	png	`png` or `jpeg`. JPEG is smaller; PNG is sharper.
`quality`	80	JPEG quality (30–100). Ignored for PNG.

Code, in your language

# Free, no key
curl "https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot?url=https://example.com" --output shot.png

# With API key (higher quota, mobile viewport, full page)
curl "https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot?url=https://github.com&device=mobile&full=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer stk_your_key_here" \
  --output github-mobile.png

// Node / browser
const url = 'https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot?url=' + encodeURIComponent('https://example.com');
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + API_KEY } });
const blob = await res.blob();
const img = new Image();
img.src = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
document.body.appendChild(img);

import requests

r = requests.get(
    'https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot',
    params={'url': 'https://example.com', 'width': 1280, 'height': 720},
    headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {API_KEY}'},
)
with open('shot.png', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(r.content)

package main

import (
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.sitetrace.it.com/api/shot?url=https://example.com", nil)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+apiKey)
    resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer resp.Body.Close()
    out, _ := os.Create("shot.png")
    defer out.Close()
    io.Copy(out, resp.Body)
}

When to use this vs the URL Preview API

If you need a single image of the page → use /api/shot. If you need just the Open Graph / Twitter Card metadata (title, description, image URL, favicon) for a link preview, use /api/preview — it's faster and doesn't render Chrome. Most apps want both: /api/preview to display a rich link, /api/shot as a fallback for sites without OG tags.