How to Add Screenshots with Webfont Support

Learn how to take screenshots of websites with webfont support, also known as double-byte character or double-byte-fonts. Webfonts are fonts that are downloaded from the web and can display characters from different languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more.

Supported Region

Make sure that you use premium-us as the region parameter for webfont support for double-byte characters.

Website screenshots example based on Chinese characters

The example below shows a screenshot of the New York Times using Chinese characters:

// Line breaks added for readability https://api.addscreenshots.com/screenshots
?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY
&region=primary-us
&url=https://cn.nytimes.com/

Website screenshot without language support

Below is an example of taking a screenshot of the Chinese edition of the New York Times when the wrong region is used.

Website screenshot with Arabic characters