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ScreenshotIt – What if a screenshot was just a URL?
by rufuspollock·Feb 14, 2026·5 points·0 comments
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The Take
It reduces screenshots to a single, shareable URL and backs that simplicity with useful niceties: @full/@mobile/@social modifiers, date-based retrieval, normalized URLs and daily snapshots. That small API surface solves a real friction (no signup, easy embeds, OG images) — my only question is how they handle scale, dynamic pages, and cache/refresh limits, but as a developer utility it's immediately useful.
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Target Audience
Developers, technical writers, product folks, bloggers and maintainers who need embeddable, versioned website screenshots
Post Description
What if a screenshot was just a URL? Well I built it:
https://screenshotit.app/{url} → image
e.g. https://screenshotit.app/news.ycombinator.com
Embed directly in markdown/html etc. Cached forever. No signup, no API key.
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