Use Case

PDF & Document Thumbnails

Show users a visual preview of documents before they download. Increase engagement on file libraries and document platforms.

If you host PDFs or HTML documents, a visual thumbnail dramatically improves click-through. The SnapSharp API can render any publicly accessible document URL into a PNG thumbnail.

# Thumbnail for a PDF served via URL
curl "https://api.snapsharp.dev/v1/screenshot\
?url=https://yoursite.com/documents/report.pdf\
&width=800&height=1000\
&wait_until=networkidle\
&full_page=false" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  -o thumbnail.png

Cache the result (default 1 hour) so you only render each document once. For HTML documents, use the /v1/html-to-image endpoint directly.

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