Screenshot tool shot-scraper package
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I was reading this post designing agentic loops by Simon Willison and came across this Python package called shot-scraper. It's a Python specific command-line utility that automates the process of taking screenshots of websites.
By the way, it's a wrapper around Playwright, and here are some cool features:
- Taking automated screenshots of entire web pages or specific elements
- Capturing screenshots of specific CSS selectors or page regions
- Supporting various output formats including PNG and JPEG with quality controls
- Handling authentication contexts for taking screenshots of protected pages
- Taking screenshots at different viewport sizes and device scale factors
It can be installed via below commands:
pip install shot-scraper
shot-scraper install # Installs the required browser engineI think, it's going to be very useful for some programmatic SEO related projects which requires taking screenshots of webpages. I am yet to install and use this, but it looks very promising when I went through their docs.
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