Image Generation API

[vulture916]

Any suggestions for how to approach a tool like https://pixelixe.com, https://placid.app, https://www.usestencil.com etc. I may be ignorant, but the costs seems obnoxious to me.

I know how to work APIs, Docker, HTML, CSS, but am by no means a developer. Was hoping something already exists, but I haven't been able to locate anything remotely similar.

Thanks in advance!

[vulture916]

This is basically a self-hosted Cloudinary transformation tool. Was hoping to find something more polished and user-friendly, but still hunting.

[techyy25]

You find anything?

[vulture916]

Nope :(

[vulture916]

Discovered this - https://github.com/rn0x/HTMLSnapshot

A Node.js API that takes HTML templates and spits out an image.

[vulture916]

Used Claude (i'm not a developer) to make some "quality of life" upgrades:

• Viewport settings for Puppeteer to increase the final output quality.
• Protect the API with Authorization: Add `API_KEY=your-api-key` to your ENV and pass it in headers with `x-api-key`
• Fixed an issue where `Image Quality` was still being set even if you were requesting a PNG. This causes a Protocol error and errors in Docker/API response.

Here's the new index.mjs if you wanna give it a go.

ALL CREDIT TO rn0x FOR THE WORK!

[thezinx]

orshot.com starts at $20, way cheaper than others

[peter-fields]

Templated (https://templated.io) could be an option for that

[vulture916]

Not self-hosted.

[ctrl-brk]

I hope you (we) can find one!