How to take a screenshot with Node.js (and record narrated videos)

How to Take a Screenshot with Node.js (and Record Narrated Videos) The Puppeteer approach to screenshots in Node.js looks like this: install the package, wait for Chromium to download, launch a browser, open a page, wait for it to load, take the screenshot, close the browser, handle the cleanup. Eight steps, one dependency that's 300MB, and a process that leaks memory in production. Here's the short version. Quick start: screenshot in Node.js import fs from ' fs ' ; const response = await fetch ( ' https://api.pagebolt.dev/v1/screenshot ' , { method : ' POST ' , headers : { ' x-api-key ' : process . env . PAGEBOLT_API_KEY , ' Content-Type ' : ' application/json ' }, body : JSON . stringify ({ url : ' https://example.com ' , fullPage : true , blockBanners : true }) }); fs . writeFileSync ( ' screenshot.png ' , Buffer . from ( await response . arrayBuffer ())); No npm install . No binary. Works in any Node.js environment — Lambda, Cloud Run, a cron job, a CI pipeline. blockBanners remove