Use of the API requires authentication with your API key. Your key is displayed in the right column in your dashboard. If you do not yet have an account, please register for a free account.
Browshot's simple API makes it very easy to request screenshot and retrieve a thumbnail in a single URL.
You can use your OS favorite command line tool to download a page with Browshot: browshot-cmd.exe (Windows), wget, curl, fetch, etc.
Take a look at the simple API section to understand how to generate the URL.
If you need more granular control over the screenshots, you can use the free libraries for Perl, Python, PHP, C# and Ruby.
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Browshot is a web service to create real time web screenshots in a multitude of virtual devices, including mobile devices like the iPhone 3 & 4, iPad, Android Nexus, etc.
You can use the web dashboard, or our full-featured API.
Real time screenshots
15+ mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.
30+ desktop resolutions
Fast and reliable
Thumbnails of any size, any ratio
Full API, open-source libraries