Snipify 📸

Snipify is a production-ready toolkit for capturing, resizing, and exporting high-quality web screenshots using Puppeteer and Sharp.

"From page to pixel-perfect screenshot—automate it all." 🚀

🌟 Features

• Full & Viewport Modes – Capture the entire page or just the visible area
• Custom Device Emulation – Desktop, mobile, tablet & more with custom user-agents
• Smart Resource Blocking – Skip heavy/irrelevant assets like analytics & media
• Image Processing with Sharp – Resize, crop, compress effortlessly
• Pure TypeScript – Strictly typed and modern API
• No Bloat – Minimal dependencies, fast and efficient

📦 Installation

# Install globally for CLI usage
npm install -g snipify

# Install locally for programmatic usage
npm install snipify

🖥️ CLI Usage

Snipify comes with a powerful CLI for quick screenshots and batch production exports right from your terminal.

Usage

snipify [URL] [OPTIONS]

Arguments

• URL Website URL (default: http://example.com/)

Options

• --device=DEVICE Device preset (see list below; default: mobile)
• --size=SIZE Production size preset (see table below)
• --production Generate all common production sizes
• --output=DIR Output directory (default: ./screenshots)
• --help, -h Show help

Device Presets

• desktop
• laptop
• tablet
• mobile
• mobile-large

Production Sizes

Examples

snipify                                   # Basic mobile screenshot
snipify https://example.com --device=desktop                # Desktop screenshot
snipify https://example.com --device=mobile --size=thumbnail    # Mobile thumbnail
snipify https://example.com --device=desktop --production       # All production sizes

Screenshots are saved to the output directory (default: ./screenshots).

🚀 Quick Start

1. Single Screenshot: captureScreenshot

import { captureScreenshot } from "snipify";

const result = await captureScreenshot({
  url: "https://example.com",
  device: "desktop",
  options: {
    format: "jpeg",
    quality: 80,
  },
});

console.log(result);
// {
//   base64: 'data:image/jpeg;base64,...',
//   size: 'original',
//   device: 'desktop',
//   type: 'jpeg'
// }

2. Batch/Production Screenshots: captureProductionScreenshots

import { captureProductionScreenshots } from "snipify";

const results = await captureProductionScreenshots({
  url: "https://example.com",
  sizes: ["blog-header", "instagram-post"],
  options: {
    format: "jpeg",
    quality: 80,
  },
});

console.log(results);
// [
//   { base64: 'data:image/jpeg;base64,...', size: 'blog-header', type: 'jpeg' },
//   { base64: 'data:image/jpeg;base64,...', size: 'instagram-post', type: 'jpeg' }
// ]

✨ Core API

📸 captureScreenshot(url, device?, options?)

Capture a screenshot and get a base64 string.

const result = await captureScreenshot({
  url: "https://example.com",
  device: "mobile",
  options: {
    mode: "viewport",
    format: "png",
  },
});

Parameters

📏 Resize Options

You can resize screenshots automatically:

await captureScreenshot({
  url: "https://example.com",
  device: "mobile",
  options: {
    fixedSize: { width: 800, height: 600 },
  },
});

⚙️ Options

interface ScreenshotOptions {
  format?: "png" | "jpeg";
  quality?: number;
  fullPage?: boolean;
  waitForSelector?: string;
  delay?: number;
  headless?: boolean;
  blockResources?: boolean;
  clip?: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number };
  fixedSize?: { width: number; height: number };
}

🧠 Why Snipify?

• Production Ready – Battle-tested setup with error handling
• Fast – Puppeteer + Sharp combo for fast, clean output
• Zero UI Dependency – Works anywhere Node.js runs
• Typed First – Built for TypeScript users
• Modular – Customize device presets, screenshot settings & more

🛠️ Contributing

git clone https://github.com/kiron0/snipify.git
cd snipify
bun install
bun run build

Issues and PRs are warmly welcome 🤝

📜 License

MIT © Toufiq Hasan Kiron

“Snip it. Sharpen it. Ship it.” – Snipify Motto 📸