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Before a screenshot, browserless walked the DOM inside the page, where any site could watch. Isolated worlds cut those calls from 1.7M to 14.6K across ten live sites, made captures cheaper, and surfaced three emulation bugs along the way.

Agents sandboxed to GET-only browsing used Microlink to execute the POST requests they were forbidden from making. The requests they left behind, and why we consider it a valid use case.

Chrome Built-in AI only exists inside a page, and Chrome for Testing will not download Gemini Nano. How we pack the model once, unpack it on the server, and call Prompt, Summarizer, and Language Detector from Node.js, on CPU, with no GPU and no extra API key.

BIMI puts brand logos in DNS as square SVGs. How Microlink uses that record for the logo property, what the top 500 sites say about coverage, and how to publish one for your company.

A deep dive into how Microlink renders WebGL screenshots on a GPU-less fleet: the ANGLE delegation chain, why SwiftShader is slow, how Mesa llvmpipe JIT-compiles the pipeline with LLVM, the Xvfb surface requirement, and the silent 2D fallback we guard against in CI.

WebGL-heavy pages (3D maps, charts, and games) used to be slow and timeout-prone to screenshot. By switching our headless browser from SwiftShader to Mesa llvmpipe, they now render up to 3× faster, with no timeouts.

Microlink is now available as an MCP server. Screenshots, PDFs, markdown conversion, and web scraping through natural language. The web, LLM-ready.

Microlink adblock now combines network-level blocking with automatic cookie consent handling, so you get cleaner screenshots and metadata without custom scripts.

Every docs page at microlink.io can now be consumed as markdown. Learn why this matters and how we implemented it with Microlink API in a few lines.

Build a Node.js script that reads your sitemap, fetches each URL with Microlink, and reports every page with a missing Open Graph image, title, description, author, date, or logo.

Learn how headless web browser enables scraping SPAs, creating assets and E2E testing, and why self-hosting infrastructure is often a trap.

unavatar.io, the unified API for resolving user avatars from any social network, is generally available. The new PRO plan removes the daily cap and resolves avatars behind bot protection using residential proxies.

is-antibot is an open-source, dependency-free library that tells you when a response was blocked by an antibot system and which provider blocked it. Microlink uses it to handle those failures at scale.

Learn how to use the `function` parameter to execute remote JavaScript code. Optimize your API requests by compressing functions using Brotli, Gzip, or lz-string.

Bypass geographic restrictions and IP blacklists with Microlink Proxy. Learn how our automatic rotation layer ensures successful data extraction.

Learn how Microlink Cards uses Monaco Editor, URL-based state management with lz-string compression, and the Microlink API to generate dynamic social images at scale.

Learn how Microlink CDN uses Global Edge Caching to speed up API responses, optimize images with WebP, and save your API quota by serving cached requests for free.

Control a headless browser via API. Use 30+ parameters to automate screenshots, PDFs, metadata extraction, and browser actions without managing infrastructure.

Turn any URL into a high-quality PDF using the Microlink API. Learn how to customize margins, scale, and media types, and serve PDFs directly via our global CDN.

Enhance your link previews with native iframe support in Microlink SDK v4.5. Learn how to embed rich content from Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram using oEmbed.

Experience the next evolution of Microlink with SDK v4.0, featuring a streamlined API and smarter bundling. Plus, explore our new Documentation Portal.

Explore Microlinks 2019 roadmap, featuring the launch of Microlink Query Language (MQL) for advanced scraping, a GraphQL endpoint, and interactive hover previews.

Unlock the power of Microlink Custom Rules to transform our API into a "scraper-as-a-service.".

Learn how to use Microlink Custom Rules to extract specific data from any website by defining jQuery-like selectors, attributes, and data types via API parameters.

Discover Microlink Product Brief, featuring custom User Agent support, optimized video detection parameters, and the major metascraper v3.11 update with Custom Rules.

Microlink SDK 2.0 removed the round parameter in favor of plain CSS, and the Microlink API extended video detection to Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo, X, YouTube, and more.

Boost your link previews with Microlink video support, auto-prerendering for 50% faster responses, and new SDK features.

Discover Microlink second product brief, featuring a fresh brand identity, unified documentation portal, and key improvements to metascraper and the SDK.