How to Take a Screenshot of a Website with Python

How to Take a Screenshot of a Website with Python Selenium. Playwright. Puppeteer bindings. All require managing browser processes, driver versions, and dependency headaches. There's a simpler way: send the URL to a screenshot API, get the PNG back. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to screenshot any website using Python and the PageBolt API — no browser installation, no version pinning, no infrastructure overhead. The Problem: Browser Driver Complexity Typical Selenium/Playwright setup: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By # Download chromedriver, manage versions, handle OS differences driver = webdriver . Chrome ( ' /path/to/chromedriver ' ) driver . get ( ' https://example.com ' ) driver . save_screenshot ( ' screenshot.png ' ) driver . quit () Issues: chromedriver version must match your Chrome version Different binary for macOS, Linux, Windows Fails in CI/CD without --no-sandbox hacks 300MB+ of dependencies Slow (browser startup overhead) Th