homotechsual/screengrabber repository overview

⁠Screengrabber

Screengrabber is a self-hosted screenshot API for capturing web pages with Playwright and Microsoft Edge. It runs as a containerized .NET service, supports API key authentication, and can cache results with Redis to reduce repeated rendering work.

⁠Why use it?

• Capture screenshots of public or authenticated pages over HTTP
• Run a browser-backed screenshot service without managing Playwright manually
• Deploy easily with Docker or Docker Compose
• Protect access with API keys
• Improve repeat performance with Redis caching

⁠Features

• Playwright-powered page rendering
• Microsoft Edge browser support
• Simple HTTP API
• API key middleware
• Redis-backed cache support
• Self-hosted deployment model
• Docker-based runtime

⁠Quick start

Example request:

GET /https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com/large
X-Api-Key: your-key

⁠Tags

• latest for the newest published image
• Git commit SHA tags for immutable CI builds

⁠Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/homotechsual/screengrabber⁠
• Docs: https://docs.homotechsual.dev/tools/screengrabber⁠

⁠Intended use

Screengrabber is built for automation, previews, integrations, reporting, archiving, and other server-side screenshot workloads where a lightweight self-hosted API is more useful than managing a full browser stack by hand.