---
canonical: 'https://htmlcsstoimage.com/features/url-screenshots-for-marketing'
title: 'URL Screenshot API for Marketing Automation | HTML/CSS to Image'
description: 'Create images from live landing pages, product pages, customer sites, and campaigns. Capture full pages or sections with automation and no-code tools.'
---

# Create marketing images from live webpages

Capture landing pages, product launches, customer sites, and campaign sections without recreating them in a design tool.

## Key capabilities

- Automation-friendly API
- Full-page campaign captures
- CSS selector cropping

## Capture a full page, viewport, or element

Send a public URL and capture options to `POST https://hcti.io/v1/image`, then choose exactly what the resulting screenshot should include:

- Capture the visible viewport with explicit width, height, and device scale.
- Take a full-page website screenshot, including content below the fold.
- Crop the screenshot to one element with a CSS selector.
- Set mobile behavior, touch, color scheme, timezone, print media, and capture timing.

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "viewport_width": 1200,
  "viewport_height": 630,
  "color_scheme": "dark"
}
```

The page must be reachable by HCTI. Pages that require a specific source network can use a saved proxy, but a site may still return a login, rate-limit, or browser-challenge page instead of its normal content.

The response includes an image ID and hosted image URL that you can embed, download, or save with your application data. HTML/CSS to Image runs headless Chromium for you, so you do not need to maintain screenshot browser infrastructure.

## MCP Integration

Connect an MCP-compatible client to `https://mcp.hcti.io` with OAuth. The tools use the connected organization's HTML/CSS to Image account, permissions, and plan limits.

- The `create_url_image` tool captures a public webpage as a full-page screenshot, an exact viewport, or a selected element. Use it to collect current page evidence, verify UI states, or create documentation screenshots.

[Read the full MCP docs](https://docs.htmlcsstoimage.com/integrations/mcp/).

## Reuse the webpages you already publish

### Social and content previews

Turn landing pages, products, and articles into images for social and publishing channels.

### Campaign QA screenshots

Capture desktop and mobile campaign pages for review before and after launch.

### Customer and partner spotlights

Create consistent snapshots of customer sites, partner pages, and featured work.

### No-code screenshot automation

Send webpage captures into content automations instead of taking and cropping screenshots by hand.

## Get started

REST API requests require an HTML/CSS to Image account and should be authenticated from trusted application code. Check the API docs and pricing for current setup instructions, limits, and feature availability.

- [View the full feature page](https://htmlcsstoimage.com/features/url-screenshots-for-marketing)
- [Browse all features](https://htmlcsstoimage.com/features.md)
- [Start free](https://htmlcsstoimage.com/join)
- [View pricing](https://htmlcsstoimage.com/pricing.md)
- [Read the URL screenshot API docs](https://docs.htmlcsstoimage.com/getting-started/url-to-image/)
- [Read the MCP docs](https://docs.htmlcsstoimage.com/integrations/mcp/)