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A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-03-09 · latest 2026-04-27

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  1. shot-scraper is another project in this vein. https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
    comment by 3eb7988a1663 · 2026-04-27 · in Self-updating screenshots
  2. I had one of these recently! https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/pull/133/files They're /incredibly/ rare though.
    comment by simonw · 2024-04-16 · in Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for open source projects
  3. …Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0' Code and screenshots and prototype --init-script feature here: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/issues/147#issuecomme...
    comment by simonw · 2024-03-25 · in Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
  4. …aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, this is what both GitLab and GitHub do. Try it out! `curl -L https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper ` (defaults to text/html) `curl --header "Accept: application/json" -L…
    comment by MattyRad · 2023-08-21 · in Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
  5. Sounds a lot like Simon Willison's open source project shot-scraper https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
    comment by hecticjeff · 2023-01-17 · in Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots
  6. …which promises CLI interface stability (until 2.0) and introduces a couple of small new features: - https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/releases/tag/1.0
    comment by simonw · 2022-10-15 · in Shot-scraper: Automating screenshots for documentation
  7. Shot-scraper https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
    comment by 5d8767c68926 · 2022-07-10 · in Monitoring tiny web services
  8. …from this morning: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1718 This one is a bit more involved: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper/issues/18 There are a few good examples linked to at the very bottom of…
    comment by simonw · 2022-04-24 · in Software Mise En Place
  9. …where the end user installs and uses the software without me having any involvement at all (like https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper )
    comment by simonw · 2022-04-10 · in The Joy of Small Projects