💭 simonw/shot-scraper: A command-line utility for taking automat...
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!https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper

Date: August 16, 2023

GitHub - simonw/shot-scraper: A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites
 A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites - simonw/shot-scraper
 GitHub · github.com [1]

 > A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites

Daaaang, this is such an elegantly simple way to get web screenshots with a cli. I was literally up and running with two commands on my arch linux machine (which it warned was unsupported by playwright).

``` python
pip install shot-scraper
# Now install the browser it needs:
shot-scraper install
shot-scraper waylonwalker.com
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 1280 -w 1920
shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ -h 480 -w 720
shot-scraper shot --selector '#posts' https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/89
```

> Note `shot-scraper https://datasette.io/ ` is a full length screenshot of the entire page.

Oh and its pretty dang fast, let alone the setup time, this crushes on startup time in my attempts to use a headless browser in the past.

!!! note

 This post is a thought [2]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [3]

References:
[1]: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/