Developer utilities · by Raycast

ray.so

Raycast's free web tool for turning code into polished images with syntax themes, light or dark windows and optional backgrounds, plus an icon maker and browsers for Raycast prompts, presets, snippets and themes.

A fast, good-looking way to make code screenshots, and its Next.js source is public, so you can see exactly how the rendering works.

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For your project

Official API: No official API
Data download: No bulk download found
License: MIT (code) MIT covers the ray.so source code; Raycast's Terms of Service do not mention ray.so or the images it produces
Commercial use: Commercial use unclear
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free

Read on ray.so's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand.

No API or npm package, but the whole site is open source (MIT, github.com/raycast/ray-so, Next.js: 'npm install && npm run dev'), so for automated code images fork it and render locally rather than driving the hosted page.
Keep the MIT notice when forking
Do not scrape or automate the hosted site; run your own copy instead

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/ray-so/agent.md before using ray.so.

What you can build

A self-hosted fork that renders code images with your own brand theme for changelogs
A CI step that renders code snippets from a docs repo into images using a local ray.so build

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