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Elegrab is a full-page website screenshot tool that captures an entire webpage from a URL and saves it as a high-quality image or PDF. Instead of capturing only the visible part of a webpage, Elegrab captures the complete page, including content below the fold.
The name Elegrab combines two words: Element, meaning a single part of a whole, and Screengrab, meaning a digital image captured from a screen. "Ele" comes from Element and "grab" comes from Screengrab - together forming Elegrab, a tool designed to capture entire webpages in seconds.
The idea is simple: paste a URL and capture the whole webpage without installing a browser extension, manually stitching screenshots together, or configuring complicated settings.
Elegrab is built for anyone who needs to capture, save, share, or archive webpages. It is particularly useful for website archiving, research, documentation, design references, compliance records, and preserving webpages for future reference.
Capturing an entire webpage has traditionally been more complicated than it should be. Many screenshot tools capture only the visible viewport, leaving users to scroll, take multiple screenshots, and stitch them together. Browser extensions can introduce another layer of friction, particularly when pages contain lazy-loaded images, cookie banners, or dynamic content.
Elegrab takes a different approach.
The goal is to make full-page webpage screenshots as simple as possible. There is no browser extension to install, no account to configure, and no settings screen to navigate before getting started.
Paste a URL, and Elegrab takes care of the rest.
The result is a complete screenshot of the webpage - including content that extends beyond the visible screen - without the manual work normally associated with capturing long webpages.
Elegrab uses a headless instance of Chromium, the same browser engine that powers Google Chrome, to render webpages before capturing them. This means webpages are rendered using a real browser environment rather than being approximated from the underlying HTML.
Each webpage is rendered using a 1920×1080 viewport and captured at 2× device scale, producing high-resolution, Retina-quality output.
Elegrab is also designed to handle modern, JavaScript-heavy websites. Instead of immediately capturing a page as soon as the initial request completes, the rendering process waits for network activity to settle. This allows dynamically loaded content and lazy-loaded images more time to appear before the full-page screenshot is taken.
For unusually slow webpages, Elegrab uses a 30-second timeout and returns a clear error rather than producing a partially rendered capture.
This approach helps produce more complete and reliable full-page website screenshots, even when a webpage contains content that loads after the initial page request.
A website screenshot tool needs to do more than capture an image quickly. It also needs to make clear what was captured and under what conditions.
Elegrab works with publicly accessible URLs. Pages that require a login, subscription, or other authentication cannot be accessed by Elegrab, just as they cannot be accessed by a logged-out browser. When a page cannot be captured, Elegrab provides a clear error rather than returning a blank or incomplete image.
Cookie banners, GDPR notices, newsletter prompts, and similar overlays are blocked by default where possible. This keeps the focus on the underlying webpage content rather than temporary pop-ups covering it.
Every capture also displays the technical parameters used to create it, including viewport dimensions, device scale, and capture mode. These details are shown alongside the download options rather than hidden away in a settings panel.
That transparency can be particularly useful when screenshots are being used for research, documentation, compliance, legal records, or website archiving, where knowing how an image was captured can matter as much as the image itself.
Every Elegrab capture is available in three formats:
This makes Elegrab useful for more than simply taking a screenshot. A captured webpage can be saved as an image for visual reference, shared as a lightweight JPG, or preserved as a PDF for documentation and long-term archiving.
For presentations, references, and client-facing material, Elegrab can display the captured webpage inside a Chrome-style browser frame. The frame includes elements such as the browser window, traffic-light controls, and address bar to make the capture look like a webpage viewed in a browser.
When provenance is important, the address bar overlay places the source URL directly inside the browser frame.
This provides a visible reference to where the screenshot came from, even when the image is shared independently or file metadata is removed.
Elegrab is designed for anyone who needs to capture an entire webpage quickly and reliably.
Common use cases include:
Whether the goal is to save a webpage as an image, convert a webpage to PDF, or create a permanent visual record of online content, Elegrab is designed to make the process quick and straightforward.
Elegrab is still early, and the product is evolving alongside the way people use it.
The free tier currently includes five captures per day, per device, measured across a rolling 24-hour period rather than resetting at midnight.
Higher-volume paid plans are in development, with future features and pricing shaped by real usage rather than assumptions about what users might need.
Elegrab is built around one principle: a screenshot tool should not require a manual.
The product will continue to focus on making webpage capture faster, simpler, and more predictable - reducing the number of decisions required before a capture and increasing confidence in the result.
The goal remains straightforward: paste a URL, capture the entire webpage, and get a high-quality result in seconds.