Twitter Tweet Screenshot

Screenshot of a tweet

Learn how to use HTML/CSS to Image to generate a screenshot of a tweet. This example makes use of Twitter's embed code to reliably generate an image.

To customize this: swap out the link to the tweet with the link to any other tweet you want. Take note of the extra parameters set for this example. We set a selector and ms_delay. This helps with cropping and gives the Twitter JavaScript plenty of time to render.

Live Demo

Make changes to the code and click the Image button below

Content

Adjust how content is rendered by adjusting these settings.

Url

Pass a publicly available URL and the API will screenshot it. This overrides any HTML.

Google Fonts

Google fonts to be loaded. Example: Roboto. Multiple fonts can be loaded like this: Roboto|Open Sans. You must also set the font-family in your CSS to use the loaded font.

Selector

A CSS selector for an element in the HTML. We’ll crop the image to this specific element.

Image size & Cropping

Images are automatically cropped by default. We crop to the outermost HTML element. For extra tweaking, use these settings.

Full Screen

Take a screenshot of the entire screen (Only applies when a URL is provided)

Device Scale

Adjusts the pixel ratio for the screenshot. The default is 2 which is equivalent to a 4K monitor.

Viewport Width

Set the width of Chrome's viewport. This will disable automatic cropping.

Viewport Height

Set the height of Chrome's viewport. This will disable automatic cropping.

Timing

By default the API generates a screenshot once everything is loaded. If the page executes JavaScript, you may want extra time before the image is rendered.

Ms Delay

Adds extra time for JavaScript to execute. Use this if you're seeing a blank image and are using JavaScript.
Default: 0. Start with 500 if needed.

Max Wait Ms

Sets a limit on time to wait until the screenshot is taken. Use this if your page loads a lot of extra irrelevant content, and you want to reduce the render time.

Render When Ready?

Check to control when the image is generated.
Call ScreenshotReady() from JavaScript in your code to trigger the image generation.

Browser Context

These settings will impact how Chrome is started, giving you more control when taking screenshots.

Color Scheme

Set Chrome to render assuming the user has explicitly set their browser to Light or Dark mode.

Timezone

Render your image with Chrome set to a specified timezone.

Block Consent Banners

Attempt to block cookie/consent banners from displaying.

Quick start code

Select your favorite language or tool for some example code.

Learn More

Dive into some more advanced topics with these tutorials.

Creating an Image

Resizing Images

Transparent PNGs

Image charts with Highcharts.js

Google Fonts

Full Screen Images

How does HTML/CSS to Image work?

We run your HTML/CSS in a specialized instance of Google Chrome so that it renders exactly how you'd expect it to. Then we generate a screenshot from Chrome, crop it for you automatically and give you back a performance optimized URL to your image.

You can then use this URL anyway you'd like. You can download the image and host it somewhere else. Or directly use the URL in your apps and webpages.

We've spent years on this problem and our API generates millions of images each month. We continually improve it as people find new ways to use the API.