Twitter/X screenshot

Use the HTML/CSS to Image API to generate images of tweets and posts on X.

There are two ways to capture a screenshot of a tweet: using the URL method (recommended) or the HTML embed method.

The simplest approach is to use the url parameter to directly screenshot the tweet on x.com.

Pass the tweet URL directly to the API with the selector parameter set to article to crop to just the tweet.

curl -X POST https://hcti.io/v1/image -u 'UserID:APIKey' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://x.com/usahockey/status/2006109366827597923",
    "selector": "article",
    "ms_delay": 3000,
    "device_scale": 2
  }'

You can also use the X/Twitter embed widget to render a tweet. This gives you a card-style appearance.

HTML

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true">
  <a href="https://twitter.com/usahockey/status/2006109366827597923"></a>
</blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

To get the URL of any tweet:

1. Click on the tweet to open it
2. Copy the URL from your browser’s address bar
3. The URL format is: https://x.com/username/status/tweet_id