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Developer builds self-hosted screenshot API for privacy-conscious users

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A developer has created a self-hosted screenshot API called Shotbase, designed to address privacy concerns associated with existing SaaS screenshot services. Unlike commercial options like Urlbox and ScreenshotOne, Shotbase allows users to process page content locally using models like Ollama, ensuring sensitive data never leaves the user's network. The project is open-source under AGPL-3.0, though the developer acknowledges current limitations in security auditing, extraction quality, and the inability to capture private IP hosts due to SSRF guards. AI

IMPACT Offers a privacy-preserving alternative for applications requiring web page screenshots and content extraction.

RANK_REASON Developer-created open-source tool release.

Read on dev.to — LLM tag →

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Developer builds self-hosted screenshot API for privacy-conscious users

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · manish Gudimetla ·

    Screenshot APIs all send your page content to their servers — built a self-hosted one, looking for feedback

    <p>Ran into this building an agent that needed to look at web pages.</p> <p>Every screenshot API is SaaS, which is fine, until you notice the<br /> page-understanding part runs on their model. So the text of every page you<br /> capture gets sent to a third party and processed th…

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