OpenScreenShot MCP Server

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OpenScreenShot runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 215 installs a week from npm. Last commit 14 Oct 2026.

Capture website screenshots (viewport or full page) with your installed Chrome. Runs locally.

Installs per day peak 474 · avg 55 · -64% w/w

a month agotoday

215

Installs / week

npm · openscreenshot

Stars

0 open issues

14 Oct 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check OpenScreenShot every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openscreenshot -- npx -y openscreenshot

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openscreenshot": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openscreenshot"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openscreenshot]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "openscreenshot"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openscreenshot": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openscreenshot"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openscreenshot": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "openscreenshot"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: CHROME_PATH (Path to a Chrome, Chromium, or Edge executable. Leave unset to auto-detect.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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OpenScreenShot — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for OpenScreenShot?

OpenScreenShot runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package openscreenshot was installed 215 times last week.

How do I connect OpenScreenShot?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls openscreenshot straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use OpenScreenShot?

The npm package openscreenshot was installed 215 times in the last week. Week over week that is -64%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is OpenScreenShot open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 82 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.