Urlbox.io

The Screenshot API You Can Depend On. Since 2012, Urlbox has replaced unreliable, inaccurate and inconsistent screenshot APIs for developers like you.

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Urlbox.io API Integrations

Build and run workflows using the Urlbox.io API. Use 1000s of source-available triggers and actions across 2,000+ apps. Or write custom code to integrate any app or API in seconds.

Overview

The Urlbox.io API lets you capture live, high-quality screenshots of web pages programmatically, offering a range of customization options such as setting the viewport size, format, and full-page capture. On Pipedream, this powerful tool can be integrated into workflows to automate screenshot capture for archiving, monitoring, and reporting tasks, or as part of a larger data collection and analysis pipeline.

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    urlbox_io: {
      type: "app",
      app: "urlbox_io",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.urlbox.io/v1/${this.urlbox_io.$auth.publishable_key}/png`,
      params: {
        url: `pipedream.com`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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HTTP / Webhook
HTTP / Webhook
Get a unique URL where you can send HTTP or webhook requests
Node
Node
Anything you can do with Node.js, you can do in a Pipedream workflow. This includes using most of npm's 400,000+ packages.
Python
Python
Anything you can do in Python can be done in a Pipedream Workflow. This includes using any of the 350,000+ PyPi packages available in your Python powered workflows.
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are the makers of popular models like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Whisper.
Salesforce (REST API)
Salesforce (REST API)
Web services API for interacting with Salesforce
HubSpot
HubSpot
HubSpot's CRM platform contains the marketing, sales, service, operations, and website-building software you need to grow your business.
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM is an online Sales CRM software that manages your sales, marketing, and support in one CRM platform.
Stripe
Stripe
Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Shopify Developer App
Shopify Developer App
Shopify is a user-friendly e-commerce platform that helps small businesses build an online store and sell online through one streamlined dashboard.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress.
Snowflake
Snowflake
A data warehouse built for the cloud
MongoDB
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program.
Supabase
Supabase
Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative.
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
AWS
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Send marketing and transactional email through the Twilio SendGrid platform with the Email API, proprietary mail transfer agent, and infrastructure for scalable delivery.
Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service provider that can integrate into any application for high volume email automation
Klaviyo
Klaviyo
Email Marketing and SMS Marketing Platform
Zendesk
Zendesk
Zendesk is award-winning customer service software trusted by 200K+ customers. Make customers happy via text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, social media.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow
The smarter way to workflow
Notion
Notion
Notion is a new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.
Slack
Slack
Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has communities, events, chats, channels, meetings, storage, tasks, and calendars in one place.

Example Use Cases

  • Website Change Monitoring: Set up a Pipedream workflow that periodically triggers the Urlbox.io API to take screenshots of a website. Compare these snapshots to detect changes or updates, and automatically alert you via email using the Pipedream Email app when significant changes are detected.

  • SEO and Archival Snapshots: Create a workflow where Urlbox.io captures screenshots of your published content or competitors' pages. This can be used for SEO tracking or archiving purposes. Integrate with Google Sheets on Pipedream to log the screenshot URLs and timestamps for a growing historical record.

  • Social Media Share Previews: Automate the process of generating URL previews for social media posts. When a new article or product is added to your CMS (like WordPress), trigger a Urlbox.io screenshot and format it for optimal social sharing, then post directly to your social platforms such as Twitter using their respective Pipedream app integrations.

Generate Screenshot From URL with Urlbox.io API on New Requests from HTTP / Webhook API
HTTP / Webhook + Urlbox.io
 
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Generate Screenshot From URL with Urlbox.io API on New Item in Feed from RSS API
RSS + Urlbox.io
 
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Generate Screenshot From URL with Urlbox.io API on New Message (Instant) from Discord API
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Generate Screenshot From URL with Urlbox.io API on New Message In Channels (Instant) from Slack API
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Generate Screenshot From URL with Urlbox.io API on New Message in Channel from Discord Bot API
Discord Bot + Urlbox.io
 
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Generate Screenshot From HTML with the Urlbox.io API

Generate a screenshot of a website provided by a html. See the docs here

 
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Generate Screenshot From URL with the Urlbox.io API

Generate a screenshot of a website provided by a url. See the docs here

 
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Authentication

Urlbox.io uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Urlbox.io account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Urlbox.io APIs in both code and no-code steps.

Sign in and copy your API key from the Projects page.