glance
Glance captures what a web page actually looks like and does — screenshots at three viewports, full network traffic, console output, rendered DOM, and structured metadata — by driving headless Chrome against any URL.
This is the hosted API. JSON-RPC 2.0, single endpoint, eight methods. Designed for the FTAE — First Time Agent Experience: a bot discovers the API, gets a key, runs free captures, and upgrades to paid. No dashboard. No human in the loop.
Walk through the flow below. Each step sends a real request to the local server.
0 — discover
Machine-readable service metadata at a well-known path.
GET /.well-known/glance.json
1 — hello no auth
Ask the API what it does and how to start.
2 — signup no auth
Email in, API key out. One field. Instant.
3 — glance auth
Submit a capture. Get a job ID back immediately.
4 — result auth
Poll until done. Small artifacts inline, large ones as signed URLs.