screenshot › overlay

Type: <object>

It creates a beauty screenshot composition using a browser overlay over the target url.

The following examples show how to use the Microlink API with CLI, cURL, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP & Golang, targeting 'https://www.apple.com/music' URL with 'screenshot' API parameter:

CLI Microlink API example

microlink https://www.apple.com/music&screenshot.overlay.background='linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)'&screenshot.overlay.browser=dark

cURL Microlink API example

curl -G "https://api.microlink.io" \
  -d "url=https://www.apple.com/music" \
  -d "screenshot.overlay.background=linear-gradient(225deg%2C%20%23FF057C%200%25%2C%20%238D0B93%2050%25%2C%20%23321575%20100%25)" \
  -d "screenshot.overlay.browser=dark"

JavaScript Microlink API example

import mql from '@microlink/mql'

const { data } = await mql('https://www.apple.com/music', {
  screenshot: {
    overlay: {
      background: "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)",
      browser: "dark"
    }
  }
})

Python Microlink API example

import requests

url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

querystring = {
    "url": "https://www.apple.com/music",
    "screenshot.overlay.background": "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)",
    "screenshot.overlay.browser": "dark"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

Ruby Microlink API example

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

base_url = "https://api.microlink.io/"

params = {
  url: "https://www.apple.com/music",
  screenshot.overlay.background: "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)",
  screenshot.overlay.browser: "dark"
}

uri = URI(base_url)
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
response = http.request(request)

puts response.body

PHP Microlink API example

<?php

$baseUrl = "https://api.microlink.io/";

$params = [
    "url" => "https://www.apple.com/music",
    "screenshot.overlay.background" => "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)",
    "screenshot.overlay.browser" => "dark"
];

$query = http_build_query($params);
$url = $baseUrl . '?' . $query;

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET"
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #: " . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}

Golang Microlink API example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io"
)

func main() {
    baseURL := "https://api.microlink.io"

    u, err := url.Parse(baseURL)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    q := u.Query()
    q.Set("url", "https://www.apple.com/music")
    q.Set("screenshot.overlay.background", "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)")
    q.Set("screenshot.overlay.browser", "dark")
    u.RawQuery = q.Encode()

    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", u.String(), nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

import mql from '@microlink/mql'

const { data } = await mql('https://www.apple.com/music', {
  screenshot: {
    overlay: {
      background: "linear-gradient(225deg, #FF057C 0%, #8D0B93 50%, #321575 100%)",
      browser: "dark"
    }
  }
})

browser

An overlay is specified as browser theme, being 'light'` and 'dark' supported.

background

Additionally, you can setup a background color, where the color can be defined as:

An hexadecimal/rgb/rgba color code (e.g., '#F76698').
A
CSS gradient
(e.g., 'linear-gradient(0deg, #330867 0%, #30CFD0 100%)').
An image url (e.g., 'https://source.unsplash.com/random/1920x1080').