ScreenCraft
Screenshot and PDF API Without the Puppeteer Headaches
Details
- External ID
- 46428944
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ScreenCraft
- Website domain
- screencraftapi.com
- Launched
- Dec. 30, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN,I built a REST API for capturing screenshots and generating PDFs from URLs.Why: I got tired of managing Puppeteer/Playwright in production. Memory leaks, zombie processes, Docker issues. So I wrapped it in an API. Stack: - Node.js + Fastify - Playwright (more stable than Puppeteer in my experience) - Self-hosted on Hetzner Features: - Screenshots: PNG, JPEG, WebP - PDFs: A4, Letter, custom sizes - Full-page capture, custom viewports - Cookie consent auto-accept - Lazy-load handling API example: curl -X POST "https://www.screencraftapi.com/api/v1/screenshots" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \ -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}' Free tier: 250 requests/month Docs: https://www.screencraftapi.com/docs Would love technical feedback. What's missing? What would make this useful for your projects?
Enrichment
- Theme
- mobile app design and launch tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screenshot and pdf generation api
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The developer explicitly wrapped Playwright in a Fastify/Node.js REST API with basic screenshot/PDF parameters, which is a textbook task for AI-assisted coding.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Playwright
Concerns raised: Privacy concerns with third-party visibility into content, Difficult to differentiate from existing solutions, Trust issues giving third-party access to generated PDFs
Feature requests: Better transparency on privacy handling
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #96 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.
- urlshot.io · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Page to Image - Screenshots & PDF · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Pikkit by Rippelle · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- AgentRender · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Shotlock · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Screenshotline · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- GetFullPage · ph · 2026-09-17 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- TakeFullPage · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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