How to Set PDF Paper Size, Margins, and Orientation with an API
Set PDF page size, margins, and orientation through your API’s documented options. Learn how to handle custom dimensions, CSS page rules, clipping, and common layout issues.
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Guides for capturing the web
How to take clean screenshots, turn HTML into images and PDFs, run headless browsers, and give AI agents eyes. Written by the team that builds ScreenshotNeo.
How to Build a URL Shortener App with Django
Build a production-ready Django URL shortener with validation, collision-safe codes, redirects, security controls, analytics, and deployment guidance.
How to Capture Website Screenshots in Sanity
Sanity’s Presentation Tool provides a live, clickable website preview—not a saved screenshot. Learn which workflow fits and how to capture an image separately.
Build a Flask Callback Server for Async Crawling with MySQL
Build a reliable Flask callback receiver that validates crawler events, stores them in MySQL, and hands slow work to a durable worker queue.
How to Automate Browser Tasks With Computer Use
Build a bounded computer-use loop that observes a browser, executes approved actions, and verifies results. Includes code, safety controls, and troubleshooting.
How to Use Asyncio to Scrape Websites With Python
Fetch multiple web pages concurrently with Python asyncio and aiohttp, parse their HTML, and handle limits, errors, retries, and memory safely.
Automate the Generation of Images, PDFs, and Videos From Data
Build a reusable template, map data into its fields, and render images, PDFs, or videos through an API. Here’s a practical workflow, runnable examples, and provider guidance.
How to Use a Free Website Screenshot Tool and API
Capture a website manually or in code with free tools, APIs, full-page options, troubleshooting, and a practical ScreenshotNeo workflow.
How to Upload and Manage Brand Images with an API
A practical guide to uploading, replacing, processing, and deleting brand images across Apple Ads, Zendesk, and Google Business Profile APIs.
GraphQL vs. REST for Web Scraping APIs: A Practical Guide
Compare GraphQL and REST for permitted web data collection, with working queries, pagination, limits, retries, and a practical decision guide.
Connecting AI Agents to Image Generation APIs with MCP
Connect an AI agent to an image-generation API with MCP: architecture, transports, tool design, image outputs, security, code, and troubleshooting.
Web Scraping APIs: A Practical Guide to Choosing, Using, and Operating Them
Learn how web scraping APIs render JavaScript, handle blocks, return structured data, control cost, and support compliant production workflows.
How to Prevent Spam Form Submissions and Protect Against Bots
Stop form spam with layered defenses: server-side verification, rate limits, WAF rules, honeypots, moderation, and monitoring.
AI Browser Agents: How to Use Them with Cloud Browsers
Connect an AI agent to a hosted browser, choose a deployment pattern, and handle sessions, compatibility, security, debugging, and screenshots.
Web Scraping Business Ideas for Developers
Four web-scraping business models, validation steps, code, legal checks, and a practical path from scripts to maintained data products.
Search APIs for AI Agents and LLMs: A Practical Guide
Compare search results with model-ready context, then choose a retrieval workflow that fits your agent, attribution needs, and budget.
How to Capture Webpages as WebP Images with cURL
cURL can download image files, but it cannot render a webpage. Learn when to use cwebp, when to use Playwright, and how to save a rendered page as WebP.
How to Scrape Search Engines with an API
Learn how to collect structured search results with APIs, paginate safely, handle quotas, compare providers, and build reliable production pipelines.