Website Screenshot Generator

What does Website Screenshot Generator do?

Website Screenshot Generator captures PNG images of web pages from a list of URLs. Use it to document landing pages, collect visual QA evidence, or archive a set of pages with a consistent viewport.

What website screenshot data can you extract?

Each successful capture saves a PNG in the run's key-value store and adds a dataset row with these fields.

• url is the final page URL after redirects.
• screenshotUrl is the authenticated Bytewells download URL for the PNG record. In local runs the field is null.
• screenshotKey identifies the PNG in the run's key-value store.

How to use Website Screenshot Generator

1. Add URLs to the List of URLs field. For API calls, pass urls as URL strings or objects with a url field. The legacy single url input is also supported.
2. Set the viewport and choose full-page or viewport-only capture. Full-page capture is enabled by default.
3. Run the Actor. Open the dataset to inspect the metadata, then use the screenshot link or the key-value store to retrieve the PNG.

Example input

{
  "urls": [{"url": "https://example.com/"}],
  "waitUntil": "load",
  "viewportWidth": 1280,
  "viewportHeight": 720,
  "fullPage": false
}

Example dataset row

{
  "url": "https://example.com/",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://bytewells.com/api/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/screenshot-65e2b3069d6a6834661d3976e381f17c?disableRedirect=true",
  "screenshotKey": "screenshot-65e2b3069d6a6834661d3976e381f17c"
}

Capture options

• viewportWidth supports 100 to 3,840 pixels. viewportHeight supports 100 to 4,320 pixels. The default viewport is 1,280 × 1,080.
• waitUntil supports load, domcontentloaded, networkidle2, and networkidle0. Use delay for extra rendering time in milliseconds.
• scrollToBottom can help trigger lazy-loaded content. Set delayAfterScrolling or enable waitUntilNetworkIdleAfterScroll with a timeout.
• selectorsToHide accepts CSS selectors such as #cookie-banner, .newsletter-popup.

Exports and limitations

Export the dataset as JSON or CSV for URL and screenshot metadata. Download PNG files separately from key-value storage. Bytewells serves the images as binary downloads. Use a .png extension when saving them. The Actor captures what its browser can reach and render. Login walls, blocking, and dynamic content can change the result. Repeated URLs may be deduplicated. A batch can return fewer rows when pages fail, so compare the dataset with the input and check the run log.