Shotlock is a screenshot and preview-image API built for real pages: cookie banners, slow-loading content, sluggish scripts. Send a URL, get back the image you expected.
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Cookie banners, infinite scroll, paywalls, and slow client-side rendering are the normal case, not the edge case. Independent tests of popular screenshot APIs routinely find failure rates well above what their marketing pages suggest — usually the ones that look fine on a simple blog post and fall apart on a real product page.
A 200 response doesn't mean a useful image. Plenty of "successful" requests come back as loading skeletons or consent overlays.
When a render is bad, you find out from a user, not from a dashboard. Debugging means guessing what the page was doing at capture time.
Most APIs bill the failed attempt the same as the good one — so unreliability quietly becomes your cost, not theirs.
One endpoint. It waits for the page to be genuinely ready, not just loaded, and tells you what it saw.
One API call with the URL and what you need back: a PNG, a PDF, or a clean OG preview image.
Cookie banners dismissed, lazy content triggered, fonts loaded — checked against the actual DOM, not a fixed timer.
Every response includes what the render did along the way, so a bad capture is something you can debug in seconds.
These are the tiers we're planning. Nothing is billed yet — early access members help set the final numbers.
We're onboarding a small first group before opening this up publicly. Tell us a bit about what you'd use it for.
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No spam. A handful of emails as we build this, then an invite when there's a slot.