ApiFlash

A simple screenshot API to automate URL to image conversion.

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A simple screenshot API to automate URL to image conversion.

5.0•1 review•

3 followers

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ApiFlash allows you to capture pixel perfect screenshots at scale with a simple to use API. It's built on top of Chrome and AWS Lambda to ensure scalability, stability and cost effectiveness. It has everything you would expect from a polished screenshot API.

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i would love an api where i input - url - MM/YY - market (AMERICAS, EMEA, ASIA, CHINA, AFRICA) and i get print screen (&fullscreen scrolable) of the url in 95% of the mobile devices screen ratios used since MM/YY Ex : - https://google.com - 01/2017 - EMEA => i guess 95% is covered by 15-20 screen sizes ?

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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@francoolaami How would the date and the market be used to make the screenshot? For mobile device coverage, you would need to make one screenshot per viewport size. Some statistics on the web on "what are the most popular mobile screen sizes" would be helpful I guess. Maybe this : http://screensiz.es/ ?

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7yr ago

@timotheejeannin date and market act as white/black list of the view ports to be rendered

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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@francoolaami Ha ok! I think this specific use case can be achieved with ApiFlash and a little amount of code.

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7yr ago

Amazing, Timothée ! I set this up in seconds, works great ! Response times are somewhat high but this is not an issue. Cheers

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7yr ago

@laurent_billon Thank you very much! I spent a lot of time working on the onboarding flow to make sure it is as simple as possible. About the response time, the actual screenshot capture is pretty quick (usually a few hundred milliseconds) but loading the web page in a real browser and transferring the screenshot over the network, can take a few seconds. I my experience, using tools that are not real browsers to produce screenshots will often result in serious rendering problems. I wanted the screenshots to be pixel perfect so I decided that rendering with a real browser was the best option. :)

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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Hi hunters! I'm Timothée Jeannin the founder of ApiFlash, and I finally got the courage to publish on product hunt! Almost 1.5 years after it initially went live ... It’s a screenshot API built with simplicity in mind. Just make an HTTP request and get a screenshot back. Using the appropriate parameters, you can control anything you would expect from a screenshot API. Full page screenshots, viewport size, scale factor, CSS & JS injection, IP geolocation, HTML extraction, custom headers & cookies, output format, … By default, ApiFlash automatically wait for the page to be loaded, but there are also options to control the capture timing. I've been working on this for a few years now and we're starting to get traction! It's a niche product that solves a few very customer specific use cases. Most of our clients initially had an in house solution before realising how painful it can be to build production systems around Chrome. Let me know what you think, feedback is well appreciated! Timothée Jeannin

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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Thank you very much! I spent a lot of time working on the onboarding flow to make sure it is as simple as possible. About the response time, the actual screenshot capture is pretty quick (usually a few hundred milliseconds) but loading the web page in a real browser and transfering the screenshot over the network, can take a few seconds. I my experience, using tools that are not real browsers to produce screenshots will often result in serious rendering problems. I wanted the screenshots to be pixel perfect so I decided that rendering with a real browser was the best option. :)

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7yr ago

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Is it same as apileap which you made?

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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@mhrnik Yes and no. ApiLeap was also a screenshot API that I sold to ApiLayer in june 2018. The tech stack was very different though. ApiLeap wasn't based on AWS Lambda and couldn't scale properly. It also lacked a lot of features that ApiFlash has. For example ip geolocation, proper full page support, etc.

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7yr ago

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@timotheejeannin Cool. Don't miss "captcha" :)

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7yr ago

ApiFlash

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@mhrnik Haha yes. :) (see linked article at the top to get the reference)

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7yr ago