When capturing screenshots of websites, cookie consent forms and banners can obscure important content. These cookies are used by websites to track user behavior and preferences, but they can interfere with the clarity of your screenshots. To ensure your screenshots are clean and professional, it's essential to manage or hide these consent forms effectively.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates that websites obtain explicit consent from users before deploying cookies. As a result, many sites display cookie consent banners that may obstruct the view of the website content you wish to capture.
By using the &consent=true
parameter, you can automatically hide cookie consent banners from your screenshots. This helps in obtaining a clear, unobstructed view of the website, which is crucial for documentation, presentations, or any scenario where clean screenshots are required.
Our system automatically detects and handles common cookie consent implementations including:
Cookie consent management is particularly valuable for these scenarios:
The following example illustrates a website with a prominent cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page.
In this example, we can see the DigitalOcean website with a cookie consent banner that covers important content at the bottom of the page.
To remove the cookie consent banner from the screenshot, use the following API request:
// Example URL to capture screenshot without cookie banner https://api.addscreenshots.com/screenshots
?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY
&consent=true
&url=https://digitalocean.com
The result after removing the consent banner is shown below. Notice how the content is now fully visible without the intrusive cookie banner:
Combine cookie consent management with other powerful features for comprehensive screenshot control:
Our cookie consent management handles GDPR banners, CCPA notices, cookie preference centers, privacy policy popups, and general tracking consent forms from most major websites.
While our automatic cookie consent management works on most websites, some sites may have unique implementations that require additional element clicking or element hiding techniques.
Yes, our cookie consent management respects privacy regulations. The feature automatically handles consent in a privacy-compliant manner while capturing screenshots for legitimate purposes.
Yes! Cookie consent management works perfectly with full-page screenshots. The cookie banner removal is applied throughout the entire page capture process.
If automatic cookie consent management doesn't work on a specific website, you can use element clicking to manually interact with cookie banners or element hiding to remove specific elements.
Yes! Cookie consent management works with all viewport sizes, including mobile and tablet dimensions.
No, cookie consent management only affects the screenshot capture process. The original website remains unchanged, and cookie handling is applied only during screenshot generation.
Yes, cookie consent management is available on all plans including our free plan. You can start using it immediately with 100 free screenshots monthly.
Start capturing clean, privacy-compliant screenshots with cookie consent management using our free plan - 100 screenshots monthly at no cost.