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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by jonshariat on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:59PM (#29257328)
If this could take screenshots, I would signup in a heartbeat.

Here is my need (and I've had this need my whole working career": What does production look like?

If a tool could automate loggin in, browsing specific flows, take screenshots of every page, and add them to a folder of the day, it would invaluable.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by dkthehuman on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:08PM (#29257440)
You're in luck! Browserflow can take screenshots and save them to Google Drive every day. :)

Take a look at the "Take Screenshot" command and feel free to message me on the Browserflow Discord if you need help.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by KennyBlanken on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:24PM (#29257671)
> and save them to Google Drive

No, thank you. Please offer a local save option.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by dkthehuman on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:56PM (#29258114)
If you run the flow locally, it'll save locally.

If you run the flow in the cloud, it'll need some place to persist it so I've chosen Google Drive to start. If there's enough demand, I'd be open to storing it on Browserflow's servers and providing an API to access the files but I'd want to make sure that's something enough customers want before sinking my time into it.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:27PM (#29260725)
Something to consider is to support an s3 compatible target [1], so a user could target AWS, Backblaze, their own minio instance, etc.

Of course don’t spend the cycles building until demand presents itself.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/logs/get-started/enable-de...

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by dotancohen on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:14AM (#29262892)
I'm not (yet) a Browserflow user, but it's something that I'm going to either pitch or just skunk into my workflow. But when that time comes, I will absolutely need a first-party way to download screenshots. I'd be open to pulling them from an S3 bucket, but absolutely not from Google Drive.

That time is at least a few weeks off, though, probably after the new year.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by RandomBookmarks on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:45PM (#29257959)
Such a thing already exists. The ui.vision extension is roughly the same, but it runs locally (no cloud):

https://ui.vision/rpa/docs/selenium-ide/capturescreenshot

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by soperj on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:39PM (#29257865)
How much are you offering for this feature?
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by kyawzazaw on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:14PM (#29258282)
Do you think you would buy this if it does? Seems pricing is high
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by renatgabitov on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:30PM (#29258443)
Jon, what's the main pain or goal with capturing a screenshot for every page that you visit?

It's tricky to do on your machine, so that performance doesn't suffer. At the end of the day, all full-page PDF generators would have to scroll to the end of the page, which would make it really tough for you to browse around.

A solution to this would be to just capture the URLs that you visit, and then do the screenshot generation in the cloud. The limitation is that none of your websites with logins would get captured.

Local storage is another issue for Chrome Extensions. There is a limit to how much data that can be stored.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by jonshariat on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:15PM (#29280396)
I'm not a programmer so it would need to be easy enough to set up and maintain.

Logged in states are a must have.

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by spython on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:05PM (#29257405)
Sikuli http://sikulix.com/ could perhaps be helpful.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by RandomBookmarks on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:50PM (#29258029)
Sikuli is good for desktop automation. For browser automation an extension based solution (such as this one) is easier to use.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by genev on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:27PM (#29257706)
How about a few lines of python with selenium?
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by kordlessagain on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:48PM (#29257997)
It’s more than a few and less than a bushel.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by ukd1 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:54PM (#29258081)
You could also do most of this (except adding the screenshot to a folder, but you can get it via api if you need) and more with our free plan - https://www.rainforestqa.com/
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by Gustomaximus on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:02AM (#29264139)
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by throwaway81523 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:28PM (#29261404)
I worked with a test automation system a while back that used ffmpeg to screenshot a headless browser. Similar approach might be workable on desktop.
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by jusob on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:01PM (#29273692)
Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by T_O_T_O on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:40AM (#29267419)
What is the specific use case or value that you extract from saving those screenshots?