
Taking screenshots of a website or other URL with PHP is simple. Keeping framework agnostic, you can use a simple cURL request to easily receive a screenshot of any URL, with a range of options on resolution, sizing and response types.
You will need a Clearshot access token which you can get here.
Next we pass the access token along with the target URL to Clearshot’s screenshot API endpoint.
For further documentation, parameters & error codes, check out the full documentation here.
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.clearshotapi.com/api/screenshot/",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =>
array(
"Authorization: Bearer [-- YOUR ACCESS TOKEN HERE --]",
"Accept: application/json"
),
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query(
array(
"url" => "https://apple.com",
"json" => "true"
)
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
$json_response = json_decode($response);
}