# Scrnify

Scrnify is a screenshot API for developers who need reliable website captures without running browsers. It creates remote Captures from URLs through an API, web UI, and scrnify CLI.

## Audience
- Developers building products, docs, monitoring, visual regression, social preview, and no-code Capture workflows.
- Coding and QA agents that need screenshot or video evidence from public URLs.
- Teams replacing local Chrome, Playwright, Puppeteer, screenshot workers, queues, and browser maintenance.

## Capabilities
- Image Captures from URLs.
- Video Captures from URLs.
- Full-page screenshots.
- Viewport screenshots with custom width and height.
- CSS-selector element screenshots.
- Image formats: PNG, JPEG, WebP. Video formats: MP4, WebM, animated GIF.
- Signed API requests with HMAC-SHA256.
- Cache support with cache_ttl.
- Agent instructions through the scrnify skill command.

## Pricing
- Production-ready Capture API.
- Pay-as-you-go graduated pricing: first 2,000 billable units in each billing period cost 0.008 EUR each; billable units 2,001+ cost 0.005 EUR each.
- Rates are marginal: the lower rate applies only above 2,000 billable units.
- Successful non-cached screenshot: one usage unit. Successful video: requested duration in seconds. Both share one usage pool.
- Lifetime trial checks prior usage before each request. While it is below 100 units, the entire successful request is free; requests are never split at the boundary. Separately, with active billing, the first 100 usage units in each Stripe billing period are free.
- Billing period means Stripe subscription anniversary period, not a calendar month.
- No fixed monthly fee and no monthly minimum.
- Failures and successful cache hits do not consume usage units.
- Machine-readable pricing: https://scrnify.com/pricing.md

## API Success Responses
- output=json: a new Capture returns JSON containing request_id and file; file is the public asset URL, not binary data.
- output=file or omitted: the Capture endpoint returns 307 Temporary Redirect to the asset URL. Clients that follow redirects receive file bytes from the asset host.
- Cache hits return 307 Temporary Redirect to the cached asset URL, including when output=json is requested.

## Important Pages
- Homepage: https://scrnify.com/
- AI agents: https://scrnify.com/agents
- Pricing: https://scrnify.com/pricing
- CLI: https://scrnify.com/cli
- Screenshot API: https://scrnify.com/screenshot-api
- Video Capture API: https://scrnify.com/video-capture-api
- Comparisons: https://scrnify.com/comparisons
- API docs: https://scrnify.com/docs
- Full LLM docs: https://scrnify.com/docs/llms-full.txt
- Blog: https://scrnify.com/blog
- CLI guide: https://scrnify.com/blog/scrnify-cli-captures-from-terminal
- Urlbox comparison: https://scrnify.com/blog/scrnify-vs-urlbox-pay-as-you-go-screenshot-api-comparison

## Contact
- Support: support@scrnify.com
- Contact page: https://scrnify.com/contact
- GitHub: https://github.com/scrnify
- X: https://twitter.com/scrnify