Support for GrabzIt's web scraping and screenshot services

GrabzIt supports location specific screenshots, which are screenshots taken from a particular country. Find out how to use this feature in your applications.

Find out how you can trigger web scrapes and screenshot tool tasks when a web page changes web monitor feature.

If you want to speed up the time it takes to take captures, follow these helpful tips.

From free to paid, the different package options explained.

How the renewal date is used to reset your allocation screenshots and scrape page limit.

How to remove the GrabzIt watermark from screenshots, PDF's and animated GIF's generated when using our free package.

Discover bugs, and issues by creating screenshots of your user's current web page using GrabzIt's JavaScript API and this technique.

Special Watermarks are built into GrabzIt's system that allows users to add special functionality to captures, such as a time-stamp, browser window or custom text.

Use GrabzIt's API to create high definition screenshots, with four times the usual number of pixels of websites and HTML captures. Additionally a section of a page can be targeted this is then zoomed into to make a HD screenshot.

Find out how to save screenshots on the server side that have been created in the browser using our JavaScript API.

Find out how to easily convert a web page into a PDF document using GrabzIt's web services and online tools.

Confused why your screenshots are not returned in the order you requested them when using the asynchronous method, this article explains why this can occur.

Have a login only page that you need to take a screenshot of? This article explains how to do it.

How to take a screenshot of a form after it has been filled in by the user, using the JavaScript API.

How GrabzIt determines the length of time a screenshot should be cached for.

Our Online Screenshot Tool allows you to take web screenshots without writing any code, this article explains how it works.

Using geo-targeting to choose, which capture service to use means GrabzIt can create captures even faster.

Find out about our customized browser software we use to take screenshots.

How to take a screenshot without requiring a callback handler using ASP.NET.

This article explains what the not accessible URL error is and how to solve it.

How to download screenshots generated by the JavaScript API.

An explanation of how to set parameters in the JavaScript API once the page has loaded.

This article explains three different approaches to changing the filename of a screenshot using our API.

Instructions on how to create a screenshot with a width and height the same size of the web page.

Find how you can use GrabzIt's API's and Online Screenshot Tool to take full length screenshots also known as full page screenshots of an entire web page.

GrabzIt supports passing custom ids with screenshot requests, this article explains how the custom ids can be used to associate a user with a screenshot.

Instructions on how to change the width and height of a screenshot.

Create free animated GIF's by converting YouTube to GIF, Vimeo to GIF and Video to GIF, with GrabzIt's Online Screenshot Tool and multiple API's.

An explanation of the URL does not exist error and how to solve it.

Convert HTML tables embedded in web pages into CSV or Excel documents, with GrabzIt's Online Screenshot Tool and multiple API's.

Follow these simple instructions on how to quickly setup and use your GrabzIt Demo.

How our screenshot service works with web pages containing Flash.

How our screenshot service works with WOFF based fonts.

If you have some on-line charting software you want to take a screenshot this article explains the caveats.

How the Dots Per Inch in a image applies when handling screenshots.

Find out how to use GrabzIt's API's and Online Screenshot Tool to create screenshots as website thumbnails.

How our screenshot service handles SVG elements within web pages.

How the GrabzIt API and the Online Screenshot Tool can be used to screenshot websites as a mobile or tablet device.

How to pay for your GrabzIt package using Debit or Credit card.

Find out how you can use the full features of GrabzIt for free.

How to use CSS selectors in the target element, hide element and wait for element features of GrabzIt's capture API.

How to make the capture GrabzIt generates match what is shown when your target URL or HTML is rendered in Chrome.

Every different file type has an associated MIME type that tells the browser how to deal with it. This article says what MIME type you need to use when serving a Capture to your users.

Easily take screenshots of Google and Mapbox online maps. With our screenshot API and Screenshot Tool.

How to prove when a capture was created and that it has not been altered since

Find out what GrabzIt's policy is on commercial applications.

Learn how to post to a HTTP form and screenshot the result using GrabzIt's API.

Do you want to write some code but don't know how, or you don't have the time? Follow these quick and easy instructions on hiring a programmer.

When converting raw HTML or web pages to PDF or DOCX, page breaks can be added to the documents by specifying the correct CSS.

Find out how to remove adverts from web screenshots with GrabzIt's API's.

This article explains how to fix the Invalid Callback URL. Please provide a valid web address error.

If you need to more tightly integrate GrabzIt's Web Scrapes into your application, you can do so programmatically using GrabzIt's Web Scraper API.

Find out how to create templates that can be then added to DOCX and PDF documents through GrabzIt's API.

Find out how you can use the retrieval methods provided by the GrabzIt API to automatically download captures.

Make GrabzIt captures work the same way as a users browser, keeping the cookies between different requests.

Find out how to use GrabzIt's JavaScript API on websites using HTTPS.

Create a export URL that can be used to export captures directly from GrabzIt to either Amazon S3, Dropbox, FTP and WebDav.

Sometimes you want to create captures that contain sensitive user information. GrabzIt protects this information by using encryption.

When creating a DOCX or PDF document in GrabzIt you are not restricted to the standard page sizes such as A4 and A3, instead you can create documents with any page size you desire.

Web Archiving allows your website to meet compliance regulations, content verification and more. To do this GrabzIt automatically archives your captures into the cloud.

Some apps need to many create captures as quickly as possible, to support this GrabzIt allows you to create captures in parallel.

How to change the browser width used when creating PDF and DOCX documents. This could have an effect on how the document appears for instance a small width is likely to make the document appear as a mobile website.

How to safely send sensitive data using GrabzIt's API and SSL.

Find out how GrabzIt screenshot caching works as well as the best strategy for using cached screenshots.

Thought of something that is missing from GrabzIt find out how we could help.

Sometimes a web page or part of it won't load immediately, however GrabzIt provides the delay and the waitForElement options to overcome allow you to overcome this.

Both the Screen Scraper and the Online Screenshot tool support sending results via Amazon S3, this article explains how this works.

How to automatically size an animated GIF to its correct aspect ratio, without any padding or cropping from the source video.

Sometimes you want to convert a large HTML snippet into a single DOCX, PDF document or image. While there are limitations on how much HTML can be converted at once this article explains how to work around them.

Occasionally a web page will have CSS that is only used for printing. Sometimes using this CSS when creating a PDF document results in a better PDF. This article explains how to use this CSS to create a PDF.

You can automatically add table of contents to a DOCX created using GrabzIt by using the special table of contents element in the HTML.

Add password protection to any PDF or DOCX file created using GrabzIt, so only the people who should be able to read the document can.

Control how a PDF document is cropped when creating a document from a targeted HTML element.

Web pages and HTML can be captured with a transparent background if you follow the technique detailed in this article.

To protect your privacy and our service we will delete inactive and invalid free accounts

When converting HTML snippet relative links are usually automatically converted to absolute links when an address parameter is also specified, unless you follow this advice.

How to secure access to your GrabzIt callback handler so that only GrabzIt can access it.

If you want to cancel your GrabzIt subscription this article explains how.

What the domain is not valid with this application key means and how to solve it.

This article explains how to avoid the problem of large screenshots appearing stretched.

What the Java unsupported version error means and how to solve it.

What the rate limit reached error is and how to solve it.

An explanation of what the Scrape Page Limit is and what it is used for.

Sometimes the width of content in PDF screenshots does not fill the page. Find out why and how to solve it.

What is Capture Priority and how it effects the time it takes to process captures.

How custom cookies are used in Online Screenshot Tool.

Find out why you do not immediately get premium features after being upgraded.

Find out how the quality of your captures, can be improved to match your specific requirements, be it for images, PDF's, DOCX or animated GIF's.

If you need to update your billing information, please follow the instructions in this article.

You need an Application Key and Secret to use GrabzIt's Screenshot API, this article explains how.

Having issues with your Debit or Credit card? This article explains some of the likely causes and solutions.

This explains how any .NET language can use the GrabzIt DLL.

Get some useful tips on exporting and importing scheduled tasks into the Online Screenshot Tool.

Find out how to display a screenshot on a page when using the asynchronous callback handler method.

In certain circumstances GrabzIt will disable a scrape, this article explains how to stop this from happening.

Fix problems caused by using the hash character with the JavaScript API.

A common requirement is to save a item of data directly to its own file, this article explains how.

Find out how we calculate the allowed total resolution for an animated GIF and what package you will require.

Find out how to take screenshots of websites that use Unicode URLs with GrabzIt screenshot service.

Cookie notifications in screenshots can ruin what would otherwise be an excellent screenshot. Find out how to remove these notifications, including using GrabzIt's automatic cookie notification removal feature.

When you upgrade, downgrade or have a free trial, you get a free period. Read this article to find out more about how this works.

Occasionally screenshots contain unwanted inline JavaScript popups find out how you can try to disable them.

Learn how to use GrabzIt's Callback Handler test tool to easily debug your own Callback Handlers.

This error can occur if you do not pass a filter parameter to a method that requires it in your scrape instructions.

We follow the rules found in the websites robots.txt file that is being scraped.

Captures, such as screenshots and animated GIF's can easily be stored in a database as well as a file system. Follow this simple tutorial to find out how.

Find out how you can improve the quality of an animated GIF produced when converted from an online video.

How GrabzIt handles peoples time from around the world and how to fix you time if it is wrong.

Create a GrabzIt client for any non-supported programming language by following these instructions.

Are all of your requests to GrabzIt's API timing out? This article explains how to diagnose and fix the issue.

Instructions on how to capture a website that is blocking GrabzIt services.

GrabzIt can capture any web page protected by basic authentication and covert it into an image, DOCX or PDF.

How our screenshot service works with canvas functionality.

What does the YouTube video has been removed, has an age restriction or is not available in the country it is being taken from mean and how to solve it.

Discover why document downloads such as PDF, DOCX and CSV are not working on a iPhone or iPad.

Create a image, DOCX or PDF screenshots of a website from anywhere in the world using HTTP proxies with GrabzIt.

To help you create the best possible HTML document to convert to DOCX this quick guide shows you the main CSS attributes that are used format the DOCX content.

How to create HTML content for conversion by GrabzIt's HTML converting API's.

Here are the premium features that come as standard on any type of premium GrabzIt account, in addition to those listed on the upgrade page.

How to use GrabzIt's capture API when your machine is located behind a proxy.

How to alter the a web page before converting it to a image, PDF or DOCX.

Adding bookmarks to PDF document makes it easier for the reader to navigate to the section of the document they are interested in, fortunately GrabzIt automates this process for you.

Find the solutions for the main reasons why your callback handler may not be working.

The reason why it is not possible to run GrabzIt's capture software on independently of our API on external servers.

How to use GrabzIt Bundle to create websites screenshots and convert HTML to PDF, images, DOCX and more in the Symfony Framework.

Variables can be added to a Scheduled Task filename that will allow it to be altered depending on the properties of task.

Find out about GrabzIt's approach when converting HTML to DOCX, in order to create the best Word documents possible.

Some hints and tips on fixing the unknown network error issue.

It is very easy to add a border to your PDF document by using some simple HTML and CSS.

Find out how to change your current GrabzIt package and what happens to your existing subscription.

This article explains how blank captures can be created and how to solve the error.

How GrabzIt accounts and packages work with multiple applications.

This article explains what remaining captures are and how you can use them.

This article explains what the Web Scraper does and how it can be used.

Find out what this error means and how to stop it occurring in the future.

Find out how the maximum screenshot size is calculated in GrabzIt.

An explanation of why with GrabzIt it is not necessary to disable caching.

If you want to delete your account this article explains how.

Both the Screen Scraper and the Online Screenshot tool support sending results via FTP, this article explains how this works.

Both the Screen Scraper and the Online Screenshot tool support sending results via WebDav, this article explains how this works.

Both the Web Scraper and the Online Screenshot Tool support sending results via Dropbox, this article explains how this works.

This article explains what the screenshot is temporarily not accessible error means and how to solve it.

If you have a full length screenshot that is appearing vertically squashed, we explain how to fix it.

How our screenshot service works with HTTPS based websites.

Find out how you can make annual payments when upgrading.

Find out how our service deals with Google Analytics.

GrabzIt currently offers several different types of support as explained in this article.

Are you doing your accounts, do you need to know if we are VAT registered?

Find out how GrabzIt's screenshot services handle Java Applets.