Project Showcase template

The project-showcase template renders a developer image as a PNG. POST a JSON payload to the endpoint below and you receive a CDN URL in the response.

Endpoint

POST https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/project-showcase
X-API-Key: <your-api-key>
Content-Type: application/json

Authentication uses the X-API-Key header. See the authentication docs for details on issuing and rotating keys.

Inputs

The full set of inputs the template accepts:

Defaults

Defaults applied automatically when not overridden in the request:

Code examples

curl -X POST https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/project-showcase \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"version":"v3.2","title":"Live presence and cursor sharing","summary":"See exactly who is editing what, in real time, across every doc in your workspace.","eyebrow":"CHANGELOG","screenshot_url":"https://picsum.photos/seed/project-showcase/900/560","product_name":"Northwind Docs","background_color":"#0B0F1A","accent_color":"#22D3EE"}'

<?php
$response = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http::withHeaders([
    'X-API-Key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
])->post('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/project-showcase', ['version' => 'v3.2', 'title' => 'Live presence and cursor sharing', 'summary' => 'See exactly who is editing what, in real time, across every doc in your workspace.', 'eyebrow' => 'CHANGELOG', 'screenshot_url' => 'https://picsum.photos/seed/project-showcase/900/560', 'product_name' => 'Northwind Docs', 'background_color' => '#0B0F1A', 'accent_color' => '#22D3EE']);

$url = $response->json('url');

const response = await fetch('https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/project-showcase', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "version": "v3.2",
    "title": "Live presence and cursor sharing",
    "summary": "See exactly who is editing what, in real time, across every doc in your workspace.",
    "eyebrow": "CHANGELOG",
    "screenshot_url": "https://picsum.photos/seed/project-showcase/900/560",
    "product_name": "Northwind Docs",
    "background_color": "#0B0F1A",
    "accent_color": "#22D3EE"
}),
});

const { url } = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://app.html2img.com/api/v1/templates/project-showcase',
    headers={'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
    json={'version': 'v3.2', 'title': 'Live presence and cursor sharing', 'summary': 'See exactly who is editing what, in real time, across every doc in your workspace.', 'eyebrow': 'CHANGELOG', 'screenshot_url': 'https://picsum.photos/seed/project-showcase/900/560', 'product_name': 'Northwind Docs', 'background_color': '#0B0F1A', 'accent_color': '#22D3EE'},
)

url = response.json()['url']

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Response

A successful render returns:

{
 "success": true,
 "id": "abc123",
 "url": "https://i.html2img.com/abc123.png",
 "credits_remaining": 1234,
 "template": "project-showcase"
}

The url field is a CDN URL for the rendered PNG. credits_remaining tracks your monthly quota. Shared response fields are documented in the API parameters reference.

Errors

The template endpoint returns the following error responses:

422 Validation failed

Returned when one or more inputs fail validation. The errors object lists field-specific messages.

{
 "success": false,
 "error": "validation_failed",
 "errors": {
 "title": ["The title field is required."]
 }
}

404 Template not found

Returned with {"code": "template_not_found"} if the slug is not registered. Check the template list for current slugs.

401 Unauthorised

Missing or invalid API key. See the authentication docs.

429 Too many requests

You have hit the rate limit or used your monthly credits. The pricing page covers higher-volume plans.

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