How does the website screenshot capture work technically?
When you submit a URL, SimplyUtils routes the request to a secure cloud worker that runs a headless Chromium browser instance via Puppeteer. The worker navigates to your page, adjusts the viewport dimensions (e.g. 1440px desktop), scrolls the page to trigger lazy loading, waits for your specified delay, takes a high-res screenshot, and streams the binary image back to your browser.
Can I capture pages that require logins or have cookie consent walls?
Because our serverless crawler operates in an isolated guest profile, it cannot log into private user portals (like Facebook feeds or dashboard panels) and will render the page as a public visitor. If the website has a persistent cookie banner, it may show up in the capture. You can adjust the load delay slider to give cookie banners time to initialize or clear, if the site automatically closes them for bots.
Is my captured webpage history private and secure?
Yes, absolutely. SimplyUtils does not index, save, or store any of the screens captured by our Chromium worker. The screenshots are streamed directly to your active browser session as a Base64 data buffer and immediately discarded from our worker memory.
Does this tool support capturing CSS animations and canvas drawings?
Yes. By setting a custom load delay (e.g. 3 to 5 seconds), you give complex JavaScript animations, canvas visualizers, dynamic charts, and external widget scripts plenty of time to finish rendering before the snapshot is taken.
Secure sandboxed rendering: All crawls are sandboxed using guest browser nodes. No personal cookies, browser keys, or local tracking parameters are exposed during screenshot generation.