Taking a screenshot of a website with an external service

The previous recipe used selenium, webdriver, and PhantomJS to create the screenshot. This obviously requires having those packages installed. If you don't want to install those and still want to make website screenshots, then you can use one of a number of web services that can take screenshots. In this recipe, we will use the service at www.screenshotapi.io to create a screenshot.

Getting ready

First, head over to www.screenshotapi.io and sign up for a free account:

Screenshot of the free account sign up

Once your account is created, proceed to get an API key. This will be needed to authenticate against their service:

The API Key

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