Retina screenshots with Python and Playwright

Install Playwright and the Playwright client for Python

pip install playwright
playwright install chromium

Take a retina screenshot and save to file

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch()
    context = browser.new_context(
        viewport={'width': 480, 'height': 240},
        device_scale_factor=2,
    )
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto('https://www.htmltoimage.com/demo')
    page.screenshot(path='retina.png')
    browser.close()

Find out how to take a full-page screenshot with Python and Playwright.

That was 12 lines of code — plus a browser to run in production

Keeping headless browsers fed, patched and scaled is a job in itself. We built Urlbox so the same screenshot is one API call:

curl "https://api.urlbox.com/v1/YOUR_API_KEY/png?url=https://example.com"

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