I Built a Free Screenshot API Because I Was Tired of Wrestling With Puppeteer

Raise your hand if you've been here before. You need to generate a screenshot of a URL. Simple enough, right? So you spin up Puppeteer. Then you spend three hours debugging why it won't launch in your Docker container. Then you discover your memory usage tripled. Then you learn that headless Chrome crashes on your cheapest VPS tier. All you wanted was a PNG. I went through this loop more times than I care to admit — for OG image generation, PDF invoice exports, uptime monitoring screenshots, thumbnail generation. The problem is always the same: running a headless browser is painful infrastructure that has nothing to do with your actual product. So I built SnapAPI — a dead-simple screenshot and PDF API. One HTTP call, one image or PDF back. That's it. What SnapAPI Does A screenshot (PNG/JPEG) of any URL A PDF generated from any URL Configurable viewport, full-page capture, custom dimensions No SDK to install. No Puppeteer dependency. Just a REST API. See It In Action cURL curl "https://