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Feature

Website crawl

Give us a starting URL and a domain. The crawler follows links, discovers pages, and takes a screenshot of each one — up to 1,000 pages per crawl.

What it solves

Unlike batch screenshots where you provide a URL list manually, crawl discovers pages automatically. Point at a seed URL and the service follows links within the domain to find and capture every page — ideal for site audits, documentation, and full-site visual inventories without building a sitemap first.

Implementation notes

  • • Automatic link discovery via BFS crawl.
  • • Domain-restricted to prevent unbounded crawling.
  • • Cancel anytime — completed screenshots are preserved.

Crawl API endpoints

Base URL: https://api.screenshotcenter.com/api/v1

POST
/crawl/create — Start a crawl job

Submit a seed URL to begin crawling. The service discovers pages automatically via BFS link following, restricted to the same domain. Returns a crawl ID immediately.

GET
/crawl/info — Get crawl status

Poll for real-time progress: discovered URLs, pages captured, failures, and estimated completion time.

GET
/crawl/list — List recent crawls

Retrieve all recent crawl jobs for the authenticated account with pagination and status filtering.

POST
/crawl/cancel — Cancel crawl job

Best-effort cancellation of a running crawl. Pages already dispatched to browser clients will complete; queued discoveries are dropped.

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