Building a Screenshot API with AWS Lambda and Puppeteer
Ever needed to automatically generate screenshots of web pages? Maybe for social media previews, monitoring, or just because manually screenshotting 50 URLs sounds like torture. I built this exact API for a client who needed to generate previews of user-submitted websites. Here’s how to build your own serverless screenshot service that can handle thousands of requests without breaking the bank. Why Lambda + Puppeteer? Before we dive in, let’s talk about why this architecture makes sense: ...