Scheduled Website Captures
& Visual Monitoring

# crontab -e
# Run daily at 8:00 AM UTC — capture full page, always fresh
0 8 * * * curl -s "https://app.snap-render.com/v1/screenshot\
?url=https://competitor.com/pricing\
&format=png&full_page=true&cache=false" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_your_key_here" \
  --output "/data/captures/competitor-pricing-$(date +\%Y\%m\%d-\%H\%M).png"

import { SnapRender } from 'snaprender';
import fs from 'fs';

const snap = new SnapRender('sk_live_your_key_here');

// Called by your scheduler (cron, node-cron, AWS EventBridge, etc.)
async function captureCompetitorPricing() {
  const timestamp = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);

  const buffer = await snap.capture('https://competitor.com/pricing', {
    format: 'png',
    full_page: true,
    cache: false,       // Always get a fresh render
    block_ads: true,
    block_cookie_banners: true,
  });

  const filename = `competitor-pricing-${timestamp}.png`;
  fs.writeFileSync(`./captures/${filename}`, buffer);
  console.log(`Captured: ${filename} (${buffer.length} bytes)`);
}

captureCompetitorPricing();

from snaprender import SnapRender
from datetime import datetime
from pathlib import Path

snap = SnapRender("sk_live_your_key_here")

# Called by your scheduler (cron, APScheduler, Celery Beat, etc.)
def capture_competitor_pricing():
    timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M")

    data = snap.capture(
        "https://competitor.com/pricing",
        format="png",
        full_page=True,
        cache=False,              # Always get a fresh render
        block_ads=True,
        block_cookie_banners=True,
    )

    path = Path(f"./captures/competitor-pricing-{timestamp}.png")
    path.write_bytes(data)
    print(f"Captured: {path.name} ({len(data)} bytes)")

capture_competitor_pricing()