SiteScreen turns URLs into screenshots and PDFs using real browsers, not HTML snapshots. A focused B2B API with configuration, observability and pricing tuned for product teams — not hobby scripts.
Under the hood, SiteScreen runs a managed fleet of headless browsers. Each API call becomes a short-lived, isolated browser session with your requested configuration. We optimize for correctness first, then for throughput.
You call the API with a URL and options: viewport size, device profile, format, wait strategy, headers, cookies (for your own properties) and more. We validate the payload, attach a trace ID and route it to the render queue for your account.
A headless Chromium instance is started in a sandbox with the requested settings. We navigate to the URL, execute JavaScript, load fonts and styles, and watch the network and DOM until your chosen “ready” condition is met.
Once the page is ready, we capture a screenshot or PDF at device resolution, apply optional cropping, encode the output and stream it back. You can choose to keep assets for a short time window or to treat every render as truly ephemeral.
Taking a manual screenshot is simple. Doing the same thousands of times per hour, for heavily scripted sites, without slowing down or breaking, is an engineering problem of its own.
No rendering engine can capture everything or bypass every barrier. We prefer to be explicit about our limitations so you can design around them.
In many cases we will return a screenshot of the problem or a clear error code, not a “magic workaround”.
You can wire up headless browsers yourself — but then you also own autoscaling, monitoring, timeouts, IP reputation and on-call duties. SiteScreen is for teams that want a dedicated, boring-reliable rendering layer.
A small, focused surface area — URL in, render out. Per-request overrides for advanced cases, structured JSON errors, and clear versioning so your integration remains stable.
Our roadmap includes SLAs for higher tiers, team access, audit trails and billing suitable for agencies, SaaS vendors and internal platform teams.
We treat renders as part of your infrastructure, not as our data. You get proper metrics and insight into what happens when something goes wrong.
We’re looking for teams who rely on screenshots or PDFs inside their products: dashboards, monitoring systems, reporting tools, QA and visual tests. Tell us briefly what you’re building and how many renders per month you expect.
We’ll reply with next steps, current limitations and a realistic view of what SiteScreen can already do for you today.