Laravel Screenshot API: Capture Screenshots and Generate PDFs in PHP

Laravel Screenshot API: Capture Screenshots and Generate PDFs in PHP Laravel has 10+ million installations. And almost every Laravel app needs to do something that requires a screenshot or PDF at some point: Generate invoice PDFs for orders Create social preview images for shared links Screenshot user-generated content for moderation Generate certificates or badges Create email header images with dynamic data Your options have been limited: Use spatie/browsershot — which requires Chrome binary installed (pain on shared hosting) Use barryvdh/laravel-dompdf — which is fine for simple PDFs but limited on styling Build it yourself with Puppeteer — overkill and adds infrastructure burden There's a simpler way: a screenshot API . The Laravel Problem: Screenshots Without Infrastructure Laravel is excellent at building web applications, but it doesn't come with built-in screenshot or PDF generation from HTML. Here's why each common solution falls short: Option 1: Browsershot (Requires Chrome)