A screenshot API or a screenshot as a service is usually a cloud or a remote server service that provides the ability to render any website, HTML, Markdown, or even PDF by making a request to the service, be it over HTTP, TCP, or any other protocol.

Daily and nightly, I work on improving the quality and performance of ScreenshotOne (your friendly screenshot API) and ensuring I help customers solve their problems and prosper.

I am seeking a good stack I can switch to for my new projects. So, I decided to try and evaluate Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Prisma stack with a small project.

It's a widespread need to take a screenshot of a live website. On a project I worked on recently, we had a legal requirement to take screenshots of forms that our users filled, as at the time they filled the forms, for consent documentation purposes.

Google Cloud gives $300 in credits for 3 months for experimenting. And I decided to give it a try, but not because of the free credits.