Using the extension
The extension captures the visible part of the current tab, lets you crop it, and uploads the result to a Screenshotter server, together with the address of the page. Whoever receives the link sees the image and can open the page it came from. It never sends anything anywhere else: there is no account, no analytics, and the only network destination is the server address you configure.
Install
Install it from the Chrome Web Store. It works in Chrome and in other Chromium-based browsers that accept Web Store extensions.
You need a server to upload to. If your organisation runs one, ask for its address. Otherwise, run your own.
Point it at your server
- Right-click the toolbar icon and choose Options (or open
chrome://extensions, find Screenshotter, and click Details → Extension options). - Enter the server address, for example
https://screenshots.example.com. - Click Save. Chrome asks for permission to access that host; accept it, otherwise uploads are blocked.
If the field is greyed out with a notice that the endpoint is managed by your organisation, an administrator has set it through a Chrome policy and there is nothing to configure.
Take a screenshot
- Click the toolbar icon (or the keyboard shortcut you assign to it under
chrome://extensions/shortcuts). The page flashes or gets a red border to confirm the capture, according to the Screenshot effect option. - A new tab opens with the capture. Draw a rectangle over the part you want
to keep, and adjust it with the corner handles. Reset selection (or
Escape) goes back to the whole screenshot. - Click Upload. The tab then navigates to the image’s page on the server.
Uploading the whole screenshot is a single click: the toolbar is there from the start, before any selection is drawn. With Quick upload enabled, a crop is uploaded as soon as you release the mouse, without the confirmation click. The option lives on the options page and as a checkbox in the crop toolbar.
Logging in
If the server requires a login, the upload stops with an Auth required prompt. Click Log In, sign in on the page that opens, then come back to the crop tab and click Retry. Your selection is kept.
Servers that identify you through Tailscale or a company proxy need no login at all.
Your screenshots on the server
The image page shows the screenshot with its title and, above it, a link to the page it was taken from. That link is what makes a screenshot of a monitoring graph useful days later: it leads back to the dashboard, with the query, time range and filters that were in the address bar at capture time. From there you can:
- copy the link to share it;
- open or download the PNG;
- edit the title and source URL;
- annotate it: rectangles, arrows, text, and solid redaction boxes, in a few colours and stroke widths, with undo;
- delete it.
The home page lists all your screenshots, newest first. It also accepts uploads directly: drop an image file on it, paste one from the clipboard, or click the upload zone to browse. PNG, JPEG, GIF and WebP are accepted and converted to PNG.
Who can see a screenshot
Each screenshot gets a random ID that is part of its link. By default anyone who has the link can open the image, without logging in, which is what makes sharing a link enough. A server operator can turn that off so that viewing requires a login too. Thumbnails, annotation and deletion are only ever available to the owner of the image (and to server administrators).