shot-scraper Automated Website Screenshot and Scraping CLI

shot-scraper is a Python CLI tool by Simon Willison for taking automated screenshots of websites and executing JavaScript against pages. Built on Playwright, it supports headless browser automation, multi-step screenshot workflows defined in YAML, and HTML-to-image rendering for CI pipelines and monitoring.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• pip install shot-scraper

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• The shot-scraper-demo repository uses this tool to capture recently spotted owls in El Granada, CA according to this page, and...

• Source: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/shot-scraper/HEAD/README.md

Source

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