Screenshots, HTML to image and OG images, rendered in a real browser

Shotvik is an API that opens a web page or your own HTML in headless Chromium and sends back an image or a PDF.

Shotvik is in private beta. Request access: support@shotvik.com

What it does

URL to PNG, JPEG or PDF

Screenshot a public web page, including full-page captures, dark mode and ad or cookie-banner blocking.

Screenshot a URL

HTML to image

Send your own HTML and CSS and get a PNG or JPEG back.

Render HTML

OG images with full CSS

1200×630 Open Graph images from HTML templates: CSS grid, <style> blocks and web fonts work. Embed them with signed og:image links that never contain your API key.

OG image guide

How Shotvik handles your data

Processing and storage in the EU. Rendering, the opt-in cache, the database, logs and backups run on Hetzner servers in Germany or Finland. API traffic goes straight to those servers, not through a CDN.
No render storage by default. Renders are streamed back to you and not stored. Caching happens only when you ask for it, for example for public OG image links.

Honest rendering

Every request a render makes identifies itself with ShotvikBot in the User-Agent. There is no stealth mode, no captcha or bot-detection bypass, and no proxies. If a site blocks Shotvik, that's the site's choice. Site owners can read more on the ShotvikBot page.

One request

curl https://api.shotvik.com/v1/screenshot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SHOTVIK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "format": "png"}' \
  --fail-with-body --output screenshot.png

Quickstart Documentation

OG image guides

OG image generator API with full CSS: how templates, signed links and caching work, with Satori/@vercel/og and Shotvik side by side.
Dynamic OG images in Next.js (App Router)
Dynamic OG images in Astro