# GET /v1/users/{user_id}/screenshot

> The latest frame of the user's browser, as a JPEG.

In [Sessions API](https://vestra.ai/developers/reference/api/sessions.md): Bash in a browser: its live screen, a voice call, or the whole of Bash inside your app.

Send `Authorization: Bearer vk_test_...` on every call.

The latest frame of the user's browser, as a JPEG. 409 browser_in_use while a person finishes a sign-in on it (a browser fetch with front open): its page is for them alone. 409 payment_in_progress while the person pays for something in their browser, or just after.

Your API key, scope `runtime` or `all`. On the card: [`watch`](https://vestra.ai/developers/watch.md). Every call here is a checked sample.

## Request

Path:

- `user_id` (`string`, required): Your own id for the user, as you named them.

## Answers 200

The file itself (image/jpeg).

## Code

**TypeScript**

```ts
const frame = await vestra.user('traveller-42').screenshot();
```

**Python**

```python
frame = vestra.user("traveller-42").screenshot()
```

**HTTP**

```bash
# Watch the screen live. Create a session with a screen to watch, and open its url in a browser tab or an iframe.
curl "$VESTRA_BASE_URL/v1/sessions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VESTRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "user_id": "traveller-42", "screen": "view" }'

# Let a person take control. In a session opened with "screen": "control", the person can take over from Bash,
# using the session's own token.
curl "$VESTRA_BASE_URL/v1/sessions/ses_8h2/screen" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SESSION_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "action": "take" }'

# Take a screenshot. You get the latest frame of the user's browser as a JPEG.
curl "$VESTRA_BASE_URL/v1/users/traveller-42/screenshot" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VESTRA_API_KEY" \
  -o screen.jpg
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "watch",
    "arguments": { "user": "traveller-42", "control": true }
  }
}
```

**CLI**: No sample in your language for this route, so here it is over HTTP.