I built a Screenshot & Metadata API that extracts 50+ fields from any URL

I built a Screenshot/PDF API that does more than just screenshots. The metadata endpoint extracts 50+ fields from any URL — OG tags, Twitter Card, JSON-LD, content analysis, and more.

What it does

• 
  URL to Screenshot — capture any webpage as PNG, JPEG, or WebP


• 
  URL to PDF — generate PDFs with custom format, margins, orientation


• 
  Metadata Extraction — 50+ fields from any URL (see below)


• 
  HTML to Image — render custom HTML/CSS to PNG/JPEG/WebP

The Metadata Endpoint

This is what makes it different. A single GET request extracts:

Basic SEO:

title, description, keywords, author, language, charset, viewport, robots, canonical URL, generator

Open Graph:

og:title, og:description, og:image (+ dimensions), og:url, og:type, og:site_name, og:locale

Twitter Card:

card type, title, description, image, @site, @creator

Icons & Theme:

favicon, apple-touch-icon, manifest, theme-color, color-scheme

Content Analysis:

first h1 text, h2 count, internal links count, external links count, images count, images without alt text, forms count, scripts count, stylesheets count, word count

Structured Data:

JSON-LD (Schema.org) parsed and returned

Feeds:

RSS/Atom feeds auto-detected

Raw dump:

All meta tags as key-value pairs

Quick Start (Python)

import requests



headers = {

    "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_KEY",

    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com"

}



# Screenshot a website

response = requests.get(

    "https://screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/screenshot",

    headers=headers,

    params={"url": "https://github.com", "width": 1280, "format": "png"}

)



with open("screenshot.png", "wb") as f:

    f.write(response.content)



print(f"Saved {len(response.content)} bytes")

Quick Start (JavaScript)

// Screenshot

const response = await fetch(

  "https://screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/screenshot?url=https://github.com&format=png",

  {

    headers: {

      "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_KEY",

      "X-RapidAPI-Host": "screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com"

    }

  }

);

const blob = await response.blob();



// Metadata

const meta = await fetch(

  "https://screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/metadata?url=https://github.com",

  {

    headers: {

      "X-RapidAPI-Key": "YOUR_KEY",

      "X-RapidAPI-Host": "screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com"

    }

  }

);

const data = await meta.json();

console.log(data.data.title); // "GitHub · Build and ship software..."

console.log(data.data.og_image); // "https://..."

console.log(data.data.word_count); // 834

cURL

# Screenshot

curl -o screenshot.png \

  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY" \

  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com" \

  "https://screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/screenshot?url=https://github.com"



# Full page capture

curl -o fullpage.png \

  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY" \

  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com" \

  "https://screenshot-pdf-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/screenshot?url=https://en.wikipedia.org&full_page=true"

Endpoints

Screenshot Parameters

Use Cases

• 
  Social media previews — generate Open Graph images


• 
  PDF reports — convert dashboards and pages to PDF


• 
  Web scraping — screenshot + metadata in one call


• 
  Thumbnails — generate website thumbnails at scale


• 
  SEO auditing — check OG tags, missing alt text, structured data


• 
  Link previews — build rich preview cards


• 
  Visual regression testing — automated screenshots for QA

Pricing vs Competitors

Try it

Screenshot & PDF API on RapidAPI

Postman Collection

Built with FastAPI + Playwright (headless Chromium). Hosted on a Hetzner VPS.

What other metadata fields would be useful to extract? Let me know in the comments!