Automating screenshots for directory websites with ScreenshotOne

Published on Dmytro Krasun 3 min read Customer stories
How and why "Directify" used ScreenshotOne to automate screenshots for directory websites.

Directify is a no-code platform that allows you to create directory websites.

Directify

Their goal was to automate screenshot generation for directory websites—it was a feature requested by their customers.

Challenge

Directify allows to spin a new directory website in minutes. But when it comes to listing website, customers had to manually take screenshots of their listings or didn’t have an option to do it, all.

Directify Roadmap

After customers requested and upvoted this feature, Directify had to implement it themselves or to seek for a solution.

They choose ScreenshotOne to help with that and let’s check out their feedback.

ScreenshotOne as a Solution and Results

A few words by Sergey Karakhanyan, a maker behind Directify:

  1. How did you discover ScreenshotOne?

I discovered ScreenshotOne from X (Twitter) by following Dmytro.

  1. Did you check any alternatives?

I haven’t checked any alternatives before this integration, because I kind of knew what I needed, and ScreenshotOne covered all my needs.

Previously, for one of my startups I have implemented screenshotting feature by myself, doing it with Puppeteer, but I had issues with it often, it wasn’t stable. With ScreenshotOne on the other hand, you can a lot of nice features, like removing cookie banner for example, ability to specify device specific viewport. I love it!

  1. How was the integration process?

Integration process was very smooth, I used PHP SDK for integration and did integrated it in my Laravel application, it was just piece of cake, easy peasy.

  1. What is your application about?

My application called Directify, it’s about making directory websites with no-code, and as we all know, directories are based on listings.

I use ScreenshotOne integration to provide customers ability to add cover image and open-graph image for their listings, for easier and faster listing creation.

  1. How does it help you and your customers in your business?

It helps my customers to not do screenshots of the listings manually and them upload it into the listing, instead they can click the button and get the screenshot uploaded to the CDN.

I also provide listing import ability, some of the customers have more than 1,000 listings, and it will be a real trouble to do that many screenshots and upload them manually.

  1. Anything you would like to add?

I would say for potential customers, who are thinking that they can implement this themselves, as a person who did that before - you can do it yourself, for sure, but the time you spend on implementation and bug fixes, that are a lot with Puppeteer, is not worth the effort - just get ScreenshotOne.

Conclusion

By integrating ScreenshotOne, Directify successfully automated screenshot generation for directory websites, providing an almost seamless experience for their customers.

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