Automate Website Screenshots

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Live dashboard report emails

Take a screenshot of a Grafana / BI dashboard and embed it in a daily PDF mailed to stakeholders who dislike logging in.

Situation

Your team keeps a live Grafana (or any BI) dashboard that shows key numbers—traffic, revenue, error rates. Some execs and investors need that data every morning, but they hate logging in or hunting for URLs. They want the highlights waiting in their inbox.

Goal

Send a clean, one‑page PDF each day that shows an up‑to‑the‑minute screenshot of the dashboard, so stakeholders can see trends at a glance without opening any tools.

How ScreenshotOne helps

ScreenshotOne PDF generation API helps you with that:

  1. Grab the view: Call the ScreenshotOne PDF endpoint with the dashboard URL. It spins up a headless browser, waits for all the charts to render, then captures a full‑page image.
  2. Wrap as PDF: Add format=pdf in the same request. ScreenshotOne drops the screenshot into a PDF—no extra code needed.
  3. Automate & email: Schedule the call with a cron job (or GitHub Action, Zapier, etc.). Once the PDF is saved, trigger your usual email service (SendGrid, SES, Gmail API) to attach the file and send it to the mailing list.
Terminal window
curl "https://api.screenshotone.com/take?access_key=<your api key></your>&format=pdf&url=https://dashboard.example.com/"

Result

Every morning, stakeholders open their email, glance at a single‑page PDF, and know exactly how the business is doing—no logins, no forgotten passwords, no extra noise. You stay focused on building dashboards; ScreenshotOne handles the capture and formatting.

Working with Dmytro from ScreenshotOne has been an overwhelmingly positive and refreshing experience. He’s incredibly responsive, quick to act, and genuinely committed to making his service work for our needs.
Barnabás Ürmössy
Barnabás Ürmössy
Development Manager, Kinsta

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