Urlbox API

{
  "service_type": "platform",
  "base_url": "https://urlbox.io",
  "auth_method": "api_key",
  "auth_config": {
    "key_type": "API key",
    "location": "query parameter or header",
    "notes": "Urlbox uses an API key and secret for authenticated requests; exact header/query naming should be confirmed in the authenticated-requests documentation. The service also supports 'render links' which can be embedded with a token, and signed requests for secure rendering."
  },
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "name": "Render screenshot/PDF/video",
      "path": "/render",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Primary rendering endpoint. Accepts a target URL or HTML plus 50+ render options to generate screenshots, PDFs, videos, and side renders."
    },
    {
      "name": "Post API",
      "path": "/render",
      "method": "POST",
      "description": "Submit render options as a POST body, useful for large HTML payloads or numerous options."
    },
    {
      "name": "Usage",
      "path": "/api/get-usage",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Retrieve current render usage against the account's plan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Projects",
      "path": "/api/projects",
      "method": "GET/POST",
      "description": "Manage Projects, which group and organize renders."
    },
    {
      "name": "Render Links",
      "path": "/render-link",
      "method": "GET",
      "description": "Generate a single link that can be embedded in HTML or emails to produce a render, without server-side integration."
    },
    {
      "name": "Webhooks",
      "path": "user-configured callback URL",
      "method": "POST",
      "description": "Urlbox notifies a configured endpoint when an asynchronous render completes."
    }
  ],
  "pricing_model": {
    "type": "subscription",
    "details": {
      "screenshot_api": {
        "Hi-Fi": "$49/mo for 5,000 renders",
        "Ultra": "$99/mo for 15,000 renders",
        "Business": "$495 base + $3 per 1,000 renders",
        "Enterprise": "custom, for 1,000,000+ renders"
      },
      "capturedeck": {
        "starts_at": "$29/mo",
        "description": "No-code bulk screenshot product for non-developers."
      },
      "trial": "7-day free trial, no credit card required",
      "billing_note": "Failed renders are not charged.",
      "annual_billing": "Available; exact prices vary by render volume."
    }
  },
  "rate_limits": {
    "documentation": "https://urlbox.com/docs/api/rate-limits.md",
    "notes": "Rate limits are documented separately; exact numeric limits are not specified in the provided content. URLbox is built for high-volume rendering, with plans sized by monthly render volume."
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "Synchronous and asynchronous website rendering",
    "Full-page website screenshots",
    "Single element screenshots",
    "PDF generation from URLs or raw HTML",
    "MP4 and WebM video recording, including scrolling videos",
    "Thumbnail generation (multiple sizes from one render)",
    "Side renders: HTML, MHTML, markdown, metadata, extracted content, thumbnails",
    "Text, HTML, and metadata extraction",
    "Over 50 render customization options (viewport, device emulation, cookies, headers, user agent, proxies, etc.)",
    "Rendering behind login via session cookies or auth headers",
    "Stealth mode and proxy support to avoid blocks and CAPTCHAs",
    "Cloud storage integration: AWS S3, private S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces",
    "Webhooks for async render completion",
    "Render Links for embedding screenshots in HTML/emails",
    "Projects for grouping renders",
    "Usage tracking API",
    "CLI available via npm for terminal or AI agent use",
    "ChatGPT plugin/assistant integration for capturing screenshots from conversations",
    "Zapier integration for scheduled automation",
    "Rendering local or private-network URLs via tunneling",
    "Sitemap-based bulk screenshot workflows",
    "SOC2 Type II attested"
  ],
  "raw_analysis": "Urlbox is a mature, developer-focused website screenshot and web automation API platform. It has been operating for over 13 years and reports more than 700 million screenshots captured for thousands of businesses. The core product is a rendering API that converts URLs or raw HTML into screenshots (full-page or element), PDFs, videos, and extracted data (text, HTML, metadata), with over 50 render options. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous rendering, webhooks, render links, custom projects, and session-cookie-based rendering behind logins. It includes stealth and proxy features to avoid bot-blocking and CAPTCHAs, and can save outputs directly to a wide range of S3-compatible and cloud storage providers (AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces). The service is SOC2 Type II attested and offers a CLI via npm, making it usable from terminals or AI agents. It also has a ChatGPT plugin/integr

3/3 tests passed

{
  "overall": 82,
  "dimensions": {
    "token_efficiency": 9.0,
    "first_try_success": 8.5,
    "response_parseability": 9.5,
    "error_clarity": 8.5,
    "doc_quality": 8.5,
    "auth_simplicity": 8.0,
    "latency": 9.5,
    "consistency": 8.5
  },
  "pricing_normalized": {
    "free_trial_days": 7,
    "entry_price_monthly_usd": 49,
    "included_renders": 5000,
    "cost_per_1000_renders_overage": 3,
    "overage_notes": "Failed renders not charged; annual discounts available; Enterprise custom for 1M+ renders",
    "associated_product": "CaptureDeck starts at $29/mo (no-code bulk screenshots)"
  },
  "issues": [
    "No public free tier beyond a 7-day trial — ongoing agent experimentation requires a paid plan.",
    "Pricing is render-volume tiered with several plans (Hi-Fi, Ultra, Business, Enterprise) plus a separate CaptureDeck product, which adds comparison overhead for users choosing a tier.",
    "Authentication details for the API (API key handling, scopes) are not surfaced in the provided checks, so agent-driven onboarding clarity is inferred rather than verified.",
    "No explicit status page surfaced in the checked endpoints, so uptime reliability must be inferred from docs rather than live telemetry."
  ],
  "recommendations": [
    "Expose a lightweight usage/status endpoint in llms.txt or robots-linked docs so agents can verify quota and uptime programmatically.",
    "Publish a concise machine-readable pricing table (JSON/YAML) alongside the marketing page to reduce parsing loss for agents summarizing costs.",
    "Consider a small always-free tier (e.g., 100 renders/mo) to increase adoption and make agent-led trials frictionless.",
    "Surface an API key rotation/scopes guide directly in llms.txt for faster agent onboarding.",
    "Add explicit rate-limit and error-code documentation to improve first-try success for automated retries."
  ]
}