# URL-to-PNG

Self-hosted HTTP service that renders a web page with Playwright and returns it as a cached PNG screenshot.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/url-to-png/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/
- repository: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png
- docs: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Jason Raimondi
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-04-18

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 256
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 7
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/jasonraimondi/url-to-png (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/config/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/jasonraimondi/url-to-png (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/ (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/releases/tag/v2.1.4 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/releases/tag/v2.1.4 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/tree/0.9.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/jasonraimondi/url-to-png (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/jasonraimondi/url-to-png/contributors (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

URL-to-PNG is a self-hosted HTTP service that renders a web page and returns it as a PNG image. A page calls the service with query parameters, such as the URL to capture and the image width, and the service caches the rendered image. The [getting started guide](https://jasonraimondi.github.io/url-to-png/getting_started/) describes the Docker image, which is also on Docker Hub, and a local development setup from source.

## Worth knowing

Pages render in a headless Chromium browser that the service drives through Playwright. The cache can write to a local directory, an S3 bucket or CouchDB, as the configuration page describes.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0