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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.



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.


> and save them to Google Drive

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


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.


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...


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.


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


How much are you offering for this feature?


Do you think you would buy this if it does? Seems pricing is high


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.


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.


Sikuli http://sikulix.com/ could perhaps be helpful.


Sikuli is good for desktop automation. For browser automation an extension based solution (such as this one) is easier to use.


How about a few lines of python with selenium?


It’s more than a few and less than a bushel.


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/



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.



What is the specific use case or value that you extract from saving those screenshots?




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