Microshot turns any website into a screenshot. Capture screenshot just by passing the url query parameter against Microshot API. Start with 1000 screenshots/month free.
Hi ProductHunt! ✋
I'm very excited to do my 3rd launch on PH!
Today I'm launching Microshot - a screenshot API that lets you programmatically turn any website into a screenshot.
It works in a way that you pass the URL to the API (together with other optional parameters), and the app visits the website and takes a screenshot. The screenshot is then uploaded to our CDN, where you can download it.
Why I built it?
There might be multiple services like this, but I challenged myself to build this project in one week in my free time.
There is no rocket science, and I wanted to play around with the AWS Lambda and see how that would work in a real-world use case.
Since I built that project last year, I launched it on ProductHunt for free today.
What are the use cases?
1. Website and mobile app testing: Developers can use screenshot API to take screenshots of web pages or mobile apps at various stages of development to ensure that they are rendering correctly and that the user interface is working as intended.
2. Monitoring and analysis: Screenshot API can be used for monitoring and analysis purposes, such as tracking changes to websites or apps, detecting errors or bugs, or identifying security vulnerabilities.
3. Content creation: Creating tutorials or instructional materials. Microshot can help automate capturing screenshots, saving time and effort for content creators needing multiple screenshots for their work.
4. Creating thumbnails: Microshot can help automate the process of generating thumbnails, saving time and effort for developers and content creators who need to create many.
The service is entirely free. You can take up to 1k screenshots/month for now.
I would love to hear your feedback about it, and I can't wait to see what you do with it 🚀
@takeittt Congrats on the launch. Have you used puppeteer on lambda to generate the screenshot? I am curious because I tried to run puppeteer on lambda, but it hasn't gone well. What is the pricing after 1000 free requests?
@dineshan_sithamparanathan yes. I didn't think about the pricing yet. I just set a limit to not exceed my funds on AWS. I can increase it for you for free if you need it now.
@naveed_rehman thanks. That's true, to be honest, there is probably no difference. It was an outcome of exploring new things :) And if this can help anyone in some way, then that's perfect. I felt I should not keep it for myself if it's a working project. Maybe it will be open source in the future. I don't know yet :)
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