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Re:Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 by huangc10 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:46PM (#18604231)
Not that I'm for screen shot, I imagine they wrote a quick script that went through a list of links to the comment and produced the screenshot (which also resized the height of the window to fit the full comment).

The script probably utilized an integration with a screen capture library. I'd imagine someone can write a script to parse html and dig out the comment, but the screen capture script was probably faster to write.

A slower method would be to copy and paste the text by hand...

Re:Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 by saagarjha on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:02PM (#18604650)
Gee, if only Hacker News had an API to extract the text and associated metadata from a comment, so that it could be presented in a textual way rather than as an image…
Re:Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 by huangc10 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:51PM (#18604872)
haha true.