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Free HTML to Image API: Convert HTML Programmatically

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HTML to Image API

A high-fidelity HTML to Image API. GrabzIt utilizes a full web browser instance to capture your raw HTML or URLs, ensuring perfect visual rendering of CSS3 animations, SVG graphics, and responsive layouts.

Generate crisp, high-resolution JPGs and transparent PNGs programmatically for thumbnails, social sharing, or visual regression testing.

Convert HTML to Image

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When rendering HTML into a JPG or PNG, ensure all background images, web fonts, and CSS files use absolute URLs. Alternatively, you can use Base64 encoded Data URLs to embed images directly into your HTML payload, ensuring lightning-fast rendering of your graphic without waiting for external assets to load.

Check out the demo above to see how easy it is to convert HTML into an image. GrabzIt's APIs assist developers in creating different types of content effortlessly.

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For Developers: HTML to Image API

This API can be used for creating thumbnails of web pages or for embedding images into emails or documents. In these cases, a convert HTML to image API is the perfect solution.

GrabzIt is one of the top APIs for converting HTML to images. The API offers a simple and efficient integration into any programming language.

HTML to Image lets you convert any webpage or HTML snippet into an image. Of course, you can resize and select the format of the image.

Currently the supported file formats are: JPG, PNG, BMP, WEBP, TIFF and SVG. A good option for image quality is the PNG format, while if you are worried about file size then JPG is a better choice. Additionally, you can add watermarks and text overlays to the image.

Use one of nine methods below to access the API. Just choose the method you want to use below, and then follow the associated instructions.

The example code below shows how easy it is convert HTML to PNG image using ASP.NET. To start creating images just download the ASP.NET Library, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for ASP.NET to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

//The client should be stored somewhere and reused!
GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret", client);

ImageOptions options = new ImageOptions();
options.Format = ImageFormat.png;

grabzIt.HTMLToImage("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>", options); 
await grabzIt.SaveToAsync("images/result.jpg");

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to PNG image using Java. To start creating images just download the Java Library, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for Java to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

GrabzItClient grabzIt = new GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");

ImageOptions options = new ImageOptions();
options.setFormat(ImageFormat.PNG);

grabzIt.HTMLToImage("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>", options); 
grabzIt.SaveTo("images/result.jpg");

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to JPG in JavaScript. To start creating images download GrabzIt's JavaScript Library. Then get your key and secret, add the domain you want to use the JavaScript on and then check out the API documentation for JavaScript to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@grabzit/js@/grabzit.min.js"></script>
<script>
GrabzIt("Sign in to view your Application Key").ConvertHTML("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>").Create();
</script>

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to an image using Node.js. To start creating images just download the Node.js Package, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for Node.js to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

var grabzit = require('grabzit');

var client = new grabzit("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
client.html_to_image("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>");
client.save_to("images/result.jpg", function (error, id){
    if (error != null){
        throw error;
    }
});

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to JPG using Perl. To start creating images just download the Perl Library, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for Perl to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use GrabzItClient;

$grabzIt = GrabzItClient->new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
$grabzIt->HTMLToImage("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>");
$grabzIt->SaveTo("images/result.jpg");

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to JPG free using PHP. To start creating image files just download the PHP Library, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for PHP to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

include("GrabzItClient.php");

$grabzIt = new \GrabzIt\GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret");
$grabzIt->HTMLToImage("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>"); 
$grabzIt->SaveTo("images/result.jpg");

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to an image using Python. To start creating images just download the Python Library, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for Python to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

from GrabzIt import GrabzItClient

grabzIt = GrabzItClient.GrabzItClient("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")
grabzIt.HTMLToImage("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>") 
grabzIt.SaveTo("images/result.jpg") 

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to a JPG format using our REST API. Then check out the API documentation for the REST API to learn all the ways you can customize your captures.

curl 
-d key=Sign in to view your Application Key
-d format=jpg 
-d html=%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Ch1%3EHello%20World%21%3C%2Fh1%3E%3C%2Fbody%3E%3C%2Fhtml%3E
https://api.grabz.it/convert 

The example code below shows how easy it is to convert HTML to a JPG format using Ruby. To start creating images just download the Ruby Gem, get your key and secret and then use the demo contained within. Then check out the API documentation for Ruby to learn all the ways you can use GrabzIt's API.

require 'grabzit'

grabzItClient = GrabzIt::Client.new("Sign in to view your Application Key", "Sign in to view your Application Secret")
grabzItClient.html_to_image("<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>")	
grabzItClient.save_to("images/result.jpg")