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Screenshotline
Open-source screenshot API that flags its own failures
A screenshot API you can self-host. GET /take?url=... returns the image bytes directly, so it works in an Removes cookie banners, ads and popups, reads the same page as clean Markdown, and flags blank captures instead of counting them as success. Open source (AGPL), runs with docker compose, tested against 202 real websites. Hosted version is the same code: 500 free renders a month, no card.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Mubeen. I built this on my own.
It started because taking one screenshot with Puppeteer is twenty minutes of work, and taking a few million is a completely different job. What surprised me was how little of it looked broken. Almost nothing crashed. The failures were a 200 OK with the wrong picture in it: a cookie wall, a half-loaded page, a blank white frame. A pipeline files that as a success and nobody notices for a month.
So I built a benchmark of 202 real websites and ran every change against it. That changed the product. It now removes consent banners with a watcher installed before the page's own scripts run, because many sites inject the banner late. It stops waiting for network idle, because plenty of pages never go idle and that alone caused 18 timeouts. It sets a header when a capture looks blank instead of pretending it worked. And it returns the same render as clean Markdown, which turned out to be what people building agents wanted.
It's open source (AGPL) and self-hosts with docker compose. The hosted version is the same code, 500 free renders a month, no card.
What it doesn't do, on purpose: video, proxy rotation, and getting past captchas. A bot wall comes back as a picture of a bot wall.
Known issues, up front: full-page captures of sites with sticky headers show the header stamped partway down, and it's one server in one region with no SLA yet.
Happy to answer anything. Especially interested if you try it on a page that breaks it.
About Screenshotline on Product Hunt
“Open-source screenshot API that flags its own failures”
Screenshotline was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. A screenshot API you can self-host. GET /take?url=... returns the image bytes directly, so it works in an Removes cookie banners, ads and popups, reads the same page as clean Markdown, and flags blank captures instead of counting them as success. Open source (AGPL), runs with docker compose, tested against 202 real websites. Hosted version is the same code: 500 free renders a month, no card.
On the analytics side, Screenshotline competes within API, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 729.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Screenshotline performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Screenshotline?
Screenshotline was hunted by Mohammed Abdul Mubeen Khan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Mohammed Abdul Mubeen Khan