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🧠 Screenshot Downloader

This Apify actor takes a list of URLs and captures full-page screenshots of each website. It saves screenshots as PNG images and provides links to the captured images. You can define proxy settings and optional selector waiting.

✅ Use Cases

📸 Capture screenshots from multiple websites

🖼️ Create visual archives of web pages

📊 Generate thumbnails for web monitoring

🔍 Monitor website visual changes over time

📥 Input Configuration

You can customize the actor using the following input fields:

{
"requestListSources":[
{
"url":"https://example.com"
}
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true
},
"handlePageTimeoutSecs":60,
"maxRequestRetries":1,
"useChrome":false
}

🧾 Fields Explained Field Type Description requestListSources array Required. Array of URLs to download. Each item can have optional userData with waitForSelector proxyConfiguration object Proxy settings - choose no proxy, Apify Proxy, or custom proxy URLs handlePageTimeoutSecs integer Optional. Maximum time to spend processing one page (default: 60) maxRequestRetries integer Optional. How many retries before giving up (default: 1) useChrome boolean Optional. Use real Chrome browser instead of Chromium (default: false)

📤 Output

The actor returns a dataset containing screenshot information for each URL. Each record includes the original URL, final URL (after redirects), page title, and link to the captured screenshot.

🧩 Sample Output

[
{
"url":"https://example.com",
"loadedUrl":"https://example.com/",
"title":"Example Domain",
"screenshotUrl":"storage/key_value_stores/default/a9bc5ea2-45d0-490e-8839-9d65968f88dc.png"
}
]

🔒 Proxy Configuration

This actor supports flexible proxy configuration:

No proxy (default)

Apify Proxy for residential IPs

Custom proxy URLs

Default proxy settings:

{
"useApifyProxy":true
}

🚀 How to Use

Open the actor in Apify Console

Click "Try actor" or create a new task

Add URLs to the requestListSources array

Configure proxy settings if needed

Run the actor

Download screenshot data in JSON, CSV, or XML format

⚙️ Advanced Input Example

{
"requestListSources":[
{
"url":"https://example.com",
"userData":{
"waitForSelector":".content-loaded"
}
},
{
"url":"https://another-site.com"
}
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":true,
"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]
},
"handlePageTimeoutSecs":120,
"maxRequestRetries":3,
"useChrome":true
}

🛠️ Tech Stack

🧩 Apify SDK — for actor and data handling

🕷️ Crawlee — for robust crawling and scraping

🌐 Puppeteer — for browser automation and rendering dynamic content

⚙️ Node.js — fast, scalable backend environment