Microshot - A simple API to automate screenshot capture | Product Hunt

A simple API to automate screenshot capture

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 🚀