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Steel API / Capture webpage screenshot

Steel API tool steel-screenshot on looot: input fields, $0.005 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Takes a screenshot of a web page. Send url; delay waits for the page before the capture (up to 10,000 ms, default 2,000). Keep delay short: a slow page plus a long delay can time out. Flat price per call.

Inputs

Name Type Required Description
delay number no Delay before capturing the screenshot (in milliseconds). Example: 2000
fullPage boolean no Capture the full page screenshot. Default is false.
projectId string no Project to execute the screenshot in.
region string no The desired region for the action to be performed in
url string yes URL of the webpage to capture
useProxy boolean no Use a Steel-provided residential proxy for capturing the screenshot

Output

Shape of the run’s result, checked against 1 real answer:

{ url }

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"steel-screenshot","input":{"url":"https://example.com","delay":2000},"wait":30}'
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "steel-screenshot",
    input: {
      url: "https://example.com",
      delay: 2000,
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "steel-screenshot",
        "input": {
            "url": "https://example.com",
            "delay": 2000,
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:web.screenshot as endpointId; see the job page.

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