Browser Rendering REST API now in open beta
Cloudflare has released a new REST API for Browser Rendering in open beta, offering endpoints for screenshots, PDF generation, HTML extraction, snapshots, and web scraping. This makes it easier to interact with browser capabilities programmatically through simple HTTP requests.
We've released a new REST API for Browser Rendering in open beta, making interacting with browsers easier than ever. This new API provides endpoints for common browser actions, with more to be added in the future.
With the REST API you can:
- Capture screenshots – Use
/screenshotto take a screenshot of a webpage from provided URL or HTML. - Generate PDFs – Use
/pdfto convert web pages into PDFs. - Extract HTML content – Use
/contentto retrieve the full HTML from a page. Snapshot (HTML + Screenshot) – Use/snapshotto capture both the page's HTML and a screenshot in one request - Scrape Web Elements – Use
/scrapeto extract specific elements from a page.
For example, to capture a screenshot:
Screenshot examplebashcurl -X POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<accountId>/browser-rendering/screenshot' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <apiToken>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"html": "Hello World!",
"screenshotOptions": {
"type": "webp",
"omitBackground": true
}
}' \
--output "screenshot.webp"
Learn more in our documentation.
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