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url-to-pngvsWorld Monitor

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

url-to-pngWorld Monitor
Score49/10086/100
Rank in category#13 of 16 in Web Scraping#5 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars25689 719
Stars, last 30 days—+2 430
Stable releases, 12 months217
Latest releasev2.1.4 · 18 Apr 2026v2.11.6 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupEasyAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

World Monitor scores 86/100 against 49/100 for url-to-png, so it is the safer default.

World Monitor ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for url-to-png.

If you want the quickest setup, url-to-png is easier to run; World Monitor needs more configuration.

World Monitor is growing faster right now (+2 430 stars in 30 days).

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