Website Screenshot MCP: screenshots, PDFs and scrolling videos for AI agents

Give your AI agent eyes on the web. One tool that captures any website, or your own HTML, as a PNG, JPEG or WebP screenshot, a PDF, or a scrolling MP4/GIF video, and returns a public link to the file.

It runs as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP), so there's nothing to install or host. Under the hood it calls the Website Screenshot & PDF Actor on Apify.

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf

What your agent can do with it

• Full page or first screen: capture the whole page top to bottom, just the first screen, a custom height, one element (CSS selector) or an exact region.
• Formats: PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF (A4, Letter, Legal and more, or one long page) and scrolling MP4 or GIF.
• Devices: desktop, laptop, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Android, social card, or any of 200+ exact device models. Retina 2x/3x and dark mode.
• Clean captures: cookie banners hidden or clicked (accept or reject), ads blocked, sticky headers fixed so they don't repeat, lazy images loaded, emoji and Asian scripts rendered.
• Logged-in pages: cookies, extra headers, HTTP basic auth, language, time zone, location and proxy.
• Page text for AI: get the page's visible text and meta description in the same call.
• Fair billing: you pay only for captures that succeed. Failed pages are free.

Connect

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL below, and sign in to Apify when asked.

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http website-screenshot "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf"

Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and other MCP clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "website-screenshot": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf"
    }
  }
}

Your client opens an Apify sign-in on first use (OAuth). If your client doesn't support OAuth, send your Apify API token as a header instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "website-screenshot": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Get a token in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations. A free Apify account includes monthly credit.

Local (stdio), for clients without remote MCP support

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "website-screenshot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server", "--tools", "devdeep/website-screenshot-pdf"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Try these prompts

• "Take a full-page screenshot of https://stripe.com and give me the link."
• "Show me how https://example.com looks on an iPhone 15, with the cookie banner accepted."
• "Save https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping as an A4 PDF."
• "Record a 6-second scrolling video of my landing page https://mysite.com."
• "Screenshot just the pricing section (#pricing) of https://example.com in dark mode."
• "Capture these 20 competitor homepages and give me thumbnails."

Main inputs

Input	What it does	Example
urls / url / html	Pages to capture, or your own HTML	["https://apify.com"]
captureMode	fullPage, viewport, customHeight, element, region	"fullPage"
format	png, jpeg, webp, pdf, mp4, gif	"webp"
device / devicePreset	Screen type, or an exact model	"mobile" / "iPhone 15 Pro"
elementSelector	CSS selector when captureMode is element	"#pricing"
cookieBanners	hide, accept, reject, off	"accept"
darkMode	Dark colour scheme	true
thumbnailWidth	Also return a small JPEG preview	400
includePageText	Also return the page's text	true
pdfPaper	A4, Letter, Legal… or singlePage	"A4"
videoSeconds	Length of the scrolling video	8

The full list (55 options) is on the Actor's input page.

What comes back

One result per page:

{
  "url": "https://apify.com/",
  "status": "success",
  "screenshotUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/…/records/0001-apify-com.png",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/…/records/0001-apify-com-thumb.jpg",
  "format": "png",
  "width": 1920,
  "height": 10052,
  "title": "Apify: Marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI",
  "error": null
}

status is success, failed (with an error, not charged) or skipped (the run hit its maximum cost, not charged).

Use it without MCP (REST API)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/devdeep~website-screenshot-pdf/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://apify.com"], "format": "png", "captureMode": "fullPage"}'

More examples are in examples/: Node.js, Python and cURL.

Pricing

Pay per successful capture, with no subscription:

Event	Price
Screenshot or PDF	$0.005 ($5 per 1,000)
Scrolling MP4/GIF video	$0.02

Failed and skipped pages are free; thumbnails and page text are included. See the live pricing.

Ready-made examples

All of them are listed on the examples page.

• Full-page website screenshot (PNG + thumbnail)
• Mobile screenshot with cookie banner accepted (iPhone)
• Website to PDF (A4, print-ready)
• Scrolling video of a website (MP4)

Support

Found a problem or need a feature? Open an issue here or on the Actor's Issues tab.

Only capture pages you're allowed to access, and use cookies or passwords only for accounts you own.

License

The examples and configuration in this repository are MIT licensed. The screenshot service itself runs on Apify.