Capture a viewport or full-page screenshot of a URL with the Firecrawl v2 screenshot format
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Documented steps
Auth: Authorization: Bearer fc-YOUR-API-KEY header against POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape (v2 API).
For a viewport-cropped screenshot, POST /v2/scrape with formats: [{"type":"screenshot","fullPage":false,"viewport":{"width":1280,"height":720}}].
For a full-page screenshot, use {"type":"screenshot","fullPage":true} (optionally add "quality":90).
Combine content and image capture in one call: formats: ["markdown",{"type":"screenshot","fullPage":true}].
Read the hosted image URL from data.screenshot in the response.
Download and persist the image promptly rather than relying on the returned URL long-term.
For per-step screenshots during a multi-action flow, use the actions array's {"type":"screenshot"} step instead (results appear under data.actions.screenshots, plural).
Official docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/api-reference/endpoint/scrape ; https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/scrape
Known gotchas
Screenshot URLs expire after 24 hours - fetch and store the image before then.
Full-page screenshots of very long or lazy-loaded pages can exceed the default 60000 ms timeout - raise `timeout` accordingly.
The single data.screenshot (screenshot format) is distinct from data.actions.screenshots (screenshot actions) - the response shapes differ.
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