Screenshots

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Feed this runtime service a URL and it returns a fully rendered screenshot image from that page (using Puppeteer)

Open Source #

• 11ty/api-screenshot on GitHub

Usage #

Image URLs have the format:

https://v1.screenshot.11ty.dev/:url/
https://v1.screenshot.11ty.dev/:url/:size/
https://v1.screenshot.11ty.dev/:url/:size/:aspectratio/
https://v1.screenshot.11ty.dev/:url/:size/:aspectratio/:zoom/

• url must be URI encoded.
• Valid size values:
  • small: 375×___ (default)
  • medium: 650×___
  • large: 1024×___
    • aspectratio of 9:16 is not supported (throws an error)
  • opengraph: always 1200×630, works with zoom
    • aspectratio is ignored (no errors thrown)
• Valid aspectratio values:
  • 1:1 (default)
  • 9:16
• Valid zoom values:
  • bigger (1.4 devicePixelRatio)
  • smaller (0.71 devicePixelRatio)

Sample #

Try it out on the Eleventy API Explorer.

<img src="https://v1.screenshot.11ty.dev/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.11ty.dev%2Fdocs%2F/small/9:16/bigger/" class="screenshot screenshot-first-example" width="375" height="667" loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Screenshot of 11ty.dev">

Advanced Options #

Manual Cache Busting #

If the screenshots aren’t updating at a high enough frequency you can pass in your own cache busting key using an underscore prefix _ after your URL.

This can be any arbitrary string tied to your unique build, here’s some examples that use today’s date:

/:url/_20210802/
/:url/:size/_20210802/
/:url/:size/:aspectratio/_20210802/
/:url/:size/:aspectratio/:zoom/_20210802/

Custom Wait Conditions #

You can customize the conditions with which the headless browser will wait to take the screenshot. At a low level, this controls the waitUntil property in Puppeteer’s goto call. The options are:

• DOMContentLoaded wait:0
• Load event wait:1 (default)
• Load event; there have been no network connections for 500ms: wait:2
• Load event; there are fewer than two network connections for 500ms: wait:3

/:url/_wait:0/
/:url/_wait:1/
/:url/_wait:2/
/:url/_wait:3/

Custom Timeout #

Number of seconds to wait before the request times out. We will attempt to simulate the stop button and return the screenshot that exists up to that point. Worst case, a default Eleventy logo is returned.

• Minimum: 3
• Maximum: 9

/:url/_timeout:3/
/:url/_timeout:9/

Combine these options #

You can use any of these advanced options together, like /:url/_20210802_wait:0_timeout:2/. Order only matters to the uniqueness of the URL caching on the CDN: /:url/_20210802_wait:0/ and /:url/_wait:0_20210802/ will be functionally equivalent but make two different screenshot requests.

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• IndieWeb Avatar
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