A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
For background on this project see shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright.
To get started without installing any software, use the shot-scraper-template template to create your own GitHub repository which takes screenshots of a page using shot-scraper. See Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page for details.
You can install the shot-scraper CLI tool using pip:
pip install shot-scraper
# Now install the browser it needs:
shot-scraper install
You can take a screenshot of a web page like this:
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/
This will create a screenshot in a file called datasette-io.png.
Many more options are available, see Taking a screenshot for details.
shot-scraper running in the simonw/datasette-screenshots GitHub repository, described in detail in Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper.shot-scraper and GitHub Actions to take screenshots of news website homepages and publish them to Twitter. The code for that lives in palewire/news-homepages.shot-scraper javascript to scrape a web page. See Scraping web pages from the command-line with shot-scraper for details of how this works.FAQs
A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
We found that shot-scraper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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