Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

#1

Post by erikpau » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:10 PM UTC

I built a CLI tool for capturing website screenshots directly from your terminal. It displays images inline using Sixel, iTerm2, or Kitty protocols, so you can preview sites without leaving your workflow.

Built in Rust, it's open source, you can find the code here: https://github.com/allscreenshots/allscreenshots-cli

Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed
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Re: Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

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Post by bartvk » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

What's interesting, is that this circumvents permanent DNS blocks that are maintained by the ISPs in my country (Netherlands). Probably not why you built it, but useful nevertheless :-)

Re: Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

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Post by nanoparticle » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

Cool! didn't know you can render images inline in the terminal

Re: Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

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Post by erikpau » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

bartvk wrote: post #2

What's interesting, is that this circumvents permanent DNS blocks that are maintained by the ISPs in my country (Netherlands). Probably not why you built it, but useful nevertheless :-)

That's absolutely a side effect indeed, though the level of interaction with the website is quite limited. But glad you find it useful!

Re: Show HN: Capture website screenshots from your terminal. No browser needed

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Post by erikpau » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

nanoparticle wrote: post #3

Cool! didn't know you can render images inline in the terminal

Yes, that's why we built it. iTerm has https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html, and Kitty has the Terminal Graphics Protocol.

This is also a good library which show the image display in action https://github.com/atanunq/viu