Azure Blob Storage Screenshot Upload

Capture website screenshots with the AddScreenshots Screenshot API and deliver them directly to Azure Blob Storage. Maintain unlimited concurrent jobs, store HTML alongside PNGs, and keep every asset inside your Azure tenancy.

• SAS-based security: Use container-level Shared Access Signatures to control exactly who can upload.
• Bulk-friendly: Process URLs, sitemaps, or domain scans with folder/file patterns and metadata.
• Automation ready: Pair with scheduling, webhooks, and change detection for a complete monitoring loop.

Upload a single screenshot to Azure Blob Storage (real-time GET request)

The example below shows how to take a real-time website screenshot and store the image in an Azure container in the "images" folder with the file name "website.png". The optional &html=true parameter will upload the "website.html" file to the Azure container as well.

Please note that the SAS token must be a base64 encoded string when used as query parameter.

// Line breaks added for readability https://api.addscreenshots.com/screenshots
?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY
&azure=base64-encoded-sas-uri
&folder=images
&file=website
&html=true
&url=https://www.youtube.com

Your API key can be found on the API Keys page. Need an API Key? Sign up to get started.
For internal applications, replace YOUR_API_KEY with your own unique API Key.
For public facing websites or hotlinks, generate a signed URL.

The API response will include a link to the screenshot in your Azure container as shown below:

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Screenshots completed.",
  "storage_provider": "azure",
  "images": [
    {
      "file": "website.png",
      "request_url": "youtube.com",
      "page_url": "https://www.youtube.com/",
      "image_url": "https://screenshots.blob.core.windows.net/screenshotdemo/images/website.png",
      "html_url": "https://screenshots.blob.core.windows.net/screenshotdemo/images/website.html",
      "size": 1711983
    }
  ]
}

Uploading multiple screenshots to Azure (POST request)

The example below shows how to take multiple screenshots using a POST request and upload the images to an Azure container where the screenshots are stored in the folder {domain} (pattern) with the filename {filepath} (pattern).

POST https://api.addscreenshots.com/screenshots/bulk/multi?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apple.com/ipad/",
    "https://www.apple.com/iphone/",
    "https://www.apple.com/watch/",
    "https://www.bbc.com/news/world",
    "https://www.bbc.com/news/technology",
    "https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi",
    "https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks"
  ],
  "azure": "https://screenshots.blob.core.windows.net/screenshotdemo?st=2020-08-10T07%...fEWvNz6fbdeUenY%3D",
  "file": "{filepath}",
  "folder": "{domain}",
  "quality": "80"
}

The API response will include the number of screenshots as shown below:

{
  "message": "The screenshots are being processed.",
  "jobId": "e0ab7f5ec3584ac29b5291806a6f3567",
  "screenshots": 7
}
                  

Look for the Job ID on the Usage Logs page to track the request.

Ready to centralise screenshots inside Azure? View pricing or create an API key to start uploading captures now.

The folders and file names as they appear in Azure storage: