website-screenshots

Website screenshots with Site-Shot

Site-Shot renders a public URL in a real Chromium browser on Site-Shot's own infrastructure and returns the image. Reach for it when someone needs to see a page: a layout check, a before/after comparison, or how the same URL renders from another country.

The image comes back into this conversation and nowhere else: Site-Shot does not save it as a file or give a link to it. If someone wants to keep a copy, tell them that plainly rather than implying it has been archived.

Before the first capture

The API key needs either the free plan — 100 captures a month on a confirmed account, no card needed — or a paid plan (from $5/mo for 2,000). Free-plan captures come from the default location or the US; other countries need a paid plan, and a request for one is refused but still counts toward the month. Once the free plan's 100 are spent, the API answers 403 until it renews. Captures use that account's API allowance and limits. The key reaches the server as SITESHOT_API_KEY, and how it gets there depends on how the server was installed, not on this skill:

• With the Site-Shot plugin for Claude Code, it is a required plugin setting the person fills in themselves with /plugin configure site-shot@site-shot.
• Anywhere else (the Codex plugin, a Tessl install, a hand-written MCP config), it is the SITESHOT_API_KEY variable in the environment the agent was started from. Codex passes it on only when the server entry lists it as env_vars = ["SITESHOT_API_KEY"]; an env table holding the text ${SITESHOT_API_KEY} reaches the server literally. Setup steps: https://github.com/site-shot/site-shot-mcp#codex-cli-plugin

So there is never a reason to ask anyone for the key in conversation, to read it out of a file, or to go hunting for one. If the setup is incomplete — the capture tools are not available, or a call comes back saying the key is missing — stop and say which host-side step is still outstanding, naming the right one for the host you are running in. Do not sign anyone up or buy anything on their behalf.