Screenshot web components with one click
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Webcap is a Chrome extension that lets you capture any web component with one click. Hover over an element, scroll or use arrow keys to traverse the DOM tree, and it captures a pixel perfect screenshot with rounded corners and a drop shadow. Built-in editor lets you pick a background before saving.No dependencies, no tracking, no account needed. Plain JS/CSS/HTML.
HN · launched Apr 3, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 215 launches in screenshot capture and mockup tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard Chrome extension that uses DOM element hover inspection, html2canvas/dom-to-image or chrome.tabs.captureVisibleTab, and a small HTML canvas editor for styling.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Firefox built-in screenshot tool
Concerns raised: What differentiates this from existing tools already in the market, Firefox compatibility
Feature requests: Ability to pass CSS selectors to automatically capture multiple components, Batch capture with default settings like border radius and plain mode, Firefox-compatible version
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 590 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #578 of 591 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.
- GetFullPage · ph · 2026-09-17 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- FullSnapShot · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Scrolling Screenshot · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Page to Image - Screenshots & PDF · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- web-shot · github · 2026-10-02 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ScreenshotEngine · ph · 2026-11-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Capturo · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OpenScreenShot · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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