Website Screenshot API for Python

Try it

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.rasterly.dev/v1/screenshot",
    params={"url": "https://stripe.com", "format": "png",
            "full_page": "true", "scale": "2"},
    headers={"X-Api-Key": "sk_live_..."},
    timeout=60,
)
r.raise_for_status()
with open("shot.png", "wb") as f:
    f.write(r.content)

Swap format=pdf for a print-ready A4, or format=jpeg with quality to shrink the file. Get a key instantly:

key = requests.post("https://api.rasterly.dev/v1/keys").json()["key"]

Common options

• url — the page to render (required).
• format — png (default), jpeg, or pdf.
• full_page — true captures the entire scroll height.
• width / height — viewport size.
• scale — device scale, up to 3× for retina crispness.
• quality — 1–100 for JPEG.

Why not just run Playwright?

Running your own headless Chromium works until it doesn't: cold starts, memory spikes on full-page captures, font and codec gaps in slim containers, and a browser to patch every few weeks. rasterly reuses one warm browser across requests, so a render is about a second of CPU and your Python service stays a thin HTTP client. It's the same engine behind PDF, read→Markdown, extract→JSON, crawl and monitoring, so one key covers the whole web layer at $0.90 per 1,000 with 100/mo free.

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