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Monday, 14th March 2022

Release shot-scraper 0.9 — A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites

Scraping web pages from the command line with shot-scraper

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I’ve added a powerful new capability to my shot-scraper command line browser automation tool: you can now use it to load a web page in a headless browser, execute JavaScript to extract information and return that information back to the terminal as JSON.

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Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page

Visit Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page

I just released shot-scraper-template, a GitHub repository template that helps you start taking automated screenshots of a web page by filling out a form.

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