How to Take a Website Screenshot in Ruby (Without Selenium)
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How to Take a Website Screenshot in Ruby (Without Selenium) You're building a Rails app that needs screenshots. You reach for Selenium and suddenly you're managing headless browsers, handling timeouts, and scaling test suites. There's a simpler way: use a screenshot API. One HTTP request. Binary PNG response. No browser overhead. The Basic Pattern: Net::HTTP Binary Download require 'net/http' require 'json' def take_screenshot(url, output_path) uri = URI('https://p