How to Generate Website Screenshots with Python in 3 Lines of Code

Ever needed to capture a screenshot of a website programmatically? Maybe for generating link previews, monitoring pages, or creating PDF reports. Here's how to do it with Python in just a few lines. The Problem Taking website screenshots programmatically usually means setting up headless Chrome, installing Playwright or Puppeteer, managing browser instances, handling timeouts, and dealing with all the edge cases. It's a lot of infrastructure for what should be a simple task. The Simple Way ScreenshotAPIs is an API that handles all of that for you. Send a URL, get back an image or PDF. 1. Get Your API Key Sign up at screenshotapis.org — the free plan gives you 100 screenshots per month. 2. Take a Screenshot import requests response = requests.post( "https://screenshotapis.org/v1/screenshot", headers={"X-API-Key": "your_api_key_here"}, json={"url": "https://github.com"} ) with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f: f.write(response.content) That's it. Three lines of real code (plus the impor