Chris Roebuck

Chris Roebuck

Founder of Urlbox

June 27, 2024

How Performance Cheats Broke Our Website Screenshots

Chris Roebuck

23 min read

What I discovered when debugging our latest customer reported edge case.

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January 31, 2024

Urlbox.io is now Urlbox.com

Chris Roebuck

1 min read

We've purchased and switched to Urlbox.com

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January 30, 2024

We're Hiring: Full Stack TypeScript Developer

Chris Roebuck

4 min read

We're looking for a developer that values managing themselves, thrives in a calm and well organised environment and is perpetually curious about web technologies.

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October 5, 2023

How to block image requests with puppeteer

Chris Roebuck

7 min read

Learn how to block image requests in puppeteer with request interception

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July 20, 2023

Capture screenshots from a list of URLs in Google Sheets

Chris Roebuck

11 min read

This guide will walk you through how to automate screenshot capture from a list of URLs in Google Sheets.

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March 28, 2023

Render screenshots and HTML using chatGPT

Chris Roebuck

6 min read

With the Urlbox ChatGPT plugin, you can ask ChatGPT to generate screenshots and render any HTML you can dream of.

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November 4, 2022

Generate an image or PDF from HTML

Chris Roebuck

1 min read

Instead of sending in a URL to the API, send in a HTML snippet

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November 3, 2022

Bulk screenshot generation with Urlbox

Chris Roebuck

1 min read

Grab screenshots from a list of 100s of URLs

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November 2, 2022

Block pop ups and hide cookie banners from screenshots

Chris Roebuck

1 min read

Several solutions for removing these annoying banners and making your screenshots look a lot cleaner.

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November 1, 2022

10 years of Urlbox: 10 ways to improve your screenshots (7 new for 2022)

Chris Roebuck

3 min read

I rarely write about our business but this milestone felt worthy of an update.

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September 19, 2022

How to make puppeteer wait for page to load

Chris Roebuck

14 min read

Because sometimes it's not as easy as waiting for the Page load event!

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February 16, 2022

Automate website screenshots on a schedule

Chris Roebuck

9 min read

Schedule website screenshots hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or on a specific date with Urlbox screenshot API and Zapier.

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February 16, 2022

Generate website screenshots from URLs in Airtable

Chris Roebuck

8 min read

Learn how to grab a screenshot from a URL in a record in an Airtable base

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February 7, 2022

7 ways to take website screenshots with node.js and JavaScript

Chris Roebuck

14 min read

Learn how to take website screenshots with node.js and javascript. Use puppeteer, playwright, electron, nightmare, selenium, phantomjs and urlbox to take website screenshots with javascript

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February 7, 2022

How to take website screenshots with Puppeteer

Chris Roebuck

18 min read

Learn how to capture website screenshots using headless chrome via the popular Puppeteer framework.

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