Screenshots have always been passive — point at a URL, capture what you see. But modern web pages are interactive. They have cookie banners, login walls, tabs, modals, and dynamic content that only appears after user interaction.

Smart Screenshots change that.

## What Are Smart Screenshots?

Smart Screenshots use an AI agent (powered by Google Gemini) to interact with a web page before capturing it. You describe what you want in plain English, and the AI does it:

"Dismiss the cookie banner and scroll to the pricing section"
"Click the 'Dark Mode' toggle, then capture"
"Fill in the search box with 'headless browser' and click Search"
"Navigate to the third tab and expand all accordion items"

## How It Works

`bash curl -X POST https://screenshotapi.site/api/v1/smart-screenshot -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "url": "https://example.com", "task": "Dismiss the cookie banner and scroll to pricing" }' --output smart.png `

The AI agent loads the page in a real browser, reads the DOM, plans and executes your task step-by-step, then captures the final state as a high-fidelity screenshot.

## Pricing

Growth plan ($100/mo): Each smart screenshot costs 20 credits
Scale plan ($250/mo): Each smart screenshot costs 40 credits

With Growth's 10,000 credits/month, that's 500 smart screenshots. Scale's 50,000 credits gives you 1,250 smart screenshots.

## Use Cases

Visual QA: Capture pages after specific user interactions to verify UI flows
Competitive monitoring: Navigate past cookie walls and paywalls to capture the real content
Documentation: Capture specific UI states that require multi-step interactions
SEO auditing: Screenshot pages after JavaScript rendering and interaction

Smart Screenshots are available today. Get started or read the docs for the full API reference.

Introducing Smart Screenshots — AI That Interacts Before It Captures