Which cookie banners does blockCookieBanners hide?

It applies a curated CSS hide list targeting common consent-management platforms and cookie-wall patterns. If a specific banner slips through, add its selector to hideSelectors to remove it as well.

Does it click "Accept" or just hide the banner?

It hides the banner in the rendered page — Rendex never clicks Accept, submits a form, or navigates on your behalf. No consent is given; the overlay is simply removed before capture.

How many elements can I hide with hideSelectors?

Up to 50 CSS selectors per request. Each can be any valid selector — class, id, attribute, or combinator — and matching elements are removed before the screenshot, PDF, or extraction runs.

Can I combine this with full-page capture or extraction?

Yes. blockCookieBanners and hideSelectors apply to image, PDF, full-page, and /v1/extract requests alike, so whichever output you need comes back free of the hidden elements.

Use Case

Screenshots Without the Cookie Banner in the Way

Set blockCookieBanners: true to auto-hide consent walls from common CMPs, and pass hideSelectors to remove any chat widget, popup, or sticky bar by CSS selector. The capture shows the page your users came for — not the overlay covering it.

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The Problem

Cookie consent walls, chat bubbles, and newsletter modals love to land right where your screenshot needs to be clean. Dismissing them by hand doesn't scale, and scripting click-to-dismiss is brittle: every CMP has a different button, banners reappear per session, and one missed click leaves a giant overlay in your marketing asset or documentation grab.

The Solution

Rendex strips the noise before it captures. blockCookieBanners applies a curated hide list covering common consent-management platforms, and hideSelectors removes anything else you name — .intercom-launcher, #newsletter-modal, .sticky-promo — by CSS selector (up to 50). Both run as part of the render, so the screenshot, PDF, or extracted text comes back clean. Available on every plan, including Free.

See it in action

The same page captured two ways: raw, with a cookie consent bar and a chat bubble, versus a clean capture with blockCookieBanners and hideSelectors stripping them away.

Get Started in Minutes

clean-screenshot.sh

curl -s -X POST https://api.rendex.dev/v1/screenshot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
    "blockCookieBanners": true,
    "hideSelectors": [".intercom-launcher", "#newsletter-modal"]
  }' \
  -o clean-pricing.png

clean-screenshot.js

import Rendex from "@copperline/rendex";
import { writeFileSync } from "fs";

const rendex = new Rendex("YOUR_API_KEY");

const shot = await rendex.screenshot({
  url: "https://example.com/pricing",
  blockCookieBanners: true,
  hideSelectors: [".intercom-launcher", "#newsletter-modal", ".sticky-promo"],
  fullPage: true,
});

writeFileSync("clean-pricing.png", shot.image);

clean_screenshot.py

from rendex import Rendex
from pathlib import Path

rendex = Rendex("YOUR_API_KEY")

shot = rendex.screenshot(
    url="https://example.com/pricing",
    block_cookie_banners=True,
    hide_selectors=[".intercom-launcher", "#newsletter-modal", ".sticky-promo"],
    full_page=True,
)

Path("clean-pricing.png").write_bytes(shot.image)

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Built for This Use Case

Auto-Block Cookie Banners

One flag — blockCookieBanners: true — applies a curated hide list for common consent-management platforms, so the consent wall is gone before the shot.

Hide Anything by Selector

hideSelectors removes any element you name by CSS selector — chat launchers, newsletter modals, sticky promos, GDPR bars — up to 50 per request.

Clean Marketing Screenshots

Capture competitor pages, your own product, or documentation without an overlay covering the part that matters. Pairs with fullPage for whole-page grabs.

Cleaner PDFs & Extracts

The same flags run for PDF output and /v1/extract, so generated documents and reader-mode text skip the cookie wall and popup clutter too.

Hides, Never Consents

Rendex hides the banner in the rendered page — it doesn't click "Accept" or submit anything on your behalf. No consent is given and no navigation happens.

Free on Every Plan

Both blockCookieBanners and hideSelectors are available on every plan, including Free — no tier gate, just parameters on the render you're already making.

Start Free, Scale as You Grow

100 calls/month free. Starter at $69/mo for 10K calls (or $58/mo billed annually — 2 months free). Pro at $179/mo for 100K calls.