Quickly create a new GitHub repository that takes automated screenshots of a web page using shot-scraper.
Visit https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper-template/generate
Pick a name for your new repository, and paste the URL of the page you would like to take screenshots of into the description field.
Then click Create repository from template.
Your new repository will be created, and a script will run which will do the following:
- Add a
shots.yml
file to your repository containing the URL of the page you requested - Take a screenshot of that URL and add that to you repository as a file called
shot.png
You can then edit that shots.yml
file to customize your screenshot, or add more URLs - see below.
To re-take the screenshot:
- Click "Actions"
- Select the "Take screenshots" workflow
- Click the "Run workflow" menu item
- Click the green "Run workflow" button
The repository will keep a history of every previous version of each screenshot, which is useful for keeping track of visual changes to a page.
The initial shots.yml
file in your repository should look like this:
- url: https://simonwillison.net/
output: shot.png
height: 800
To change the name of the file that the screenshot is saved to, change output: shot.png
to a different file name.
To take a full height image of the page, remove the height: 800
line.
To add additional screenshots, add them to the YAML file like this:
- url: https://simonwillison.net/
output: shot.png
height: 800
- url: https://www.example.com/
output: example.png
height: 800
Further options are described in the shot-scraper README file.