Capture a screenshot or full-page pageshot of a URL with Jina Reader's X-Return-Format header
domain: jina.ai · 3 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
GET https://r.jina.ai/<target-url> with header 'X-Return-Format: screenshot' for a viewport screenshot, or 'X-Return-Format: pageshot' for a full-page capture (https://docs.jina.ai/).
For JS-heavy pages combine with 'X-Engine: browser' and 'X-Wait-For-Selector: <css>' so dynamic content is rendered before capture.
Add 'Authorization: Bearer $JINA_API_KEY' for the higher rate-limit tier, same as the standard markdown route.
Known gotchas
Browser-engine rendering is slow relative to direct fetching — Jina's own comparison table lists ~7.9s average Reader latency — so set X-Timeout generously.
Same rate limits and ~5-minute caching as the base Reader route (20/500/5,000 RPM by key tier; X-No-Cache: true to bypass).
In screenshot/pageshot mode the response is the image capture, not markdown — don't expect the usual text 'content' field.
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