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November 29, 2022

Animated Screenshots

Create animated screenshots of your app with a single command.

Jonathan Markwell
Jonathan Markwell
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Some screenshots don't give a real sense of how a website looks and feels to its visitors. Take this one of TypeForm:

Static screenshot of Typeform

"You don't want to make a boring form" but this screenshot looks a bit... boring.

Wouldn't it be nice to capture the page as Typeform's designers meant for it to be experienced?

How about like this?

Animated screenshot of Typeform

That 10 second video was generated with the following code:

curl -X POST \
https://api.urlbox.io/v1/render/sync \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_URLBOX_API_SECRET' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"url":"https://typeform.com","format": "mp4","delay": 10000}'

The default video length is 3 seconds. We've added a 10,000 millisecond delay making the length 10 seconds.

This feature is currently in beta. As you can imagine it's quite a bit more resource intensive compared to rendering screenshots. During the beta the cost will be exactly the same as a screenshot render. Please take it for a spin but expect costs to increase in 2023.

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