simonw/shot-scraper

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A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript

Stars: 2.6k
Forks: 128
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 48
Avg merge: 9d 15h
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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48 open issues indexed

Support for light rendering engines (lightpanda, obscura etc.) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/shot-scraper#206 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Add support for bulk list of targets Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

simonw/shot-scraper#205 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Feature request: Mouse clicks and keyboard actions on videos Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/shot-scraper#198 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
option to point --browser firefox at a custom executable? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

simonw/shot-scraper#196 · Opened Jun 28, 2026
Reuse browser processes instead of existing and relaunching a new one Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#190 · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Javascript failing (was working before) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

simonw/shot-scraper#182 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2025
[Help wanted/Question] captures wrong section of offcanvas panel — PNG does not match expected div in selector Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

simonw/shot-scraper#181 · Opened Sep 3, 2025
upgrade for playwright? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

simonw/shot-scraper#179 · Opened Aug 9, 2025
[Feature] Support executing playwright code (--eval) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

simonw/shot-scraper#178 · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Controlling scrolling to capture the full area? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/shot-scraper#176 · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Some elements not properly loading Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#175 · Opened Mar 25, 2025
-i/--input should take a URL Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/shot-scraper#174 · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Feature: allow to load cookies from existing Chrome Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#163 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2024
No such option: --selector-all Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#162 · Opened Dec 9, 2024
How to allow insecure HTTPS connection with broken certs? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#153 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2024
How can I avoid 403 error? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/shot-scraper#151 · Opened Jun 14, 2024
Take screenshot in case of an error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#150 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2024
Can the browser be shown while shot-scraper is working? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#149 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2024
Ability to run `shot-scraper javascript` against several URLs at once Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

simonw/shot-scraper#148 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2024
--init-script support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#147 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 25, 2024
Add a high level Python API Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#145 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 9, 2024
Videos not screenshotted: "Sorry, we are having trouble playing this video" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#144 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2024
Auto scraper? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#132 · Opened Dec 14, 2023
bash interpolation inside shots.yml Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#130 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 10, 2023
Experimental feature: heap snapshots Open

enhancement research

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/shot-scraper#126 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 1, 2023
Proposal: add option to combine actions Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#124 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2023
Support for sending traffic via HTTP proxies Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

simonw/shot-scraper#123 · 11 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2023
Add color-scheme option Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

simonw/shot-scraper#121 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 7, 2023
Need option to skip errors other than http error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#117 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2023
Issue running on M1 mac using conda Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#115 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2023
Take screenshots of multiple elements Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

simonw/shot-scraper#113 · Opened May 31, 2023
Support pagination with a --next option Open

enhancement research

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

simonw/shot-scraper#105 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 8, 2023
SDK or sample code to run scraper via a Worker? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

simonw/shot-scraper#100 · Opened Nov 22, 2022
Ability to pass CLI options to `shot-scraper multi` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#98 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2022
Support for running under browser profiles Open

research

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#93 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2022
weired pdf error Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

simonw/shot-scraper#76 · 3 comments · Opened May 20, 2022
Question: Simulate hover, mouseover, mouseenter for dropdown menu activation Open

help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

simonw/shot-scraper#71 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2022
'event not found' / blank screenshot Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#68 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2022
Idea: plugins, packaging JavaScript to be injected into pages Open

research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#67 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2022
Issue on Raspberry PI Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#60 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2022
Mechanism for polling for new scraping updates without restarting Chromium Open

research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

simonw/shot-scraper#42 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 14, 2022
Idea: JavaScript macros in the YAML file Open

enhancement research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#36 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 13, 2022
Option for scripted authentication Open

enhancement research

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#30 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2022
Validate YAML mini-language using Pydantic Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

simonw/shot-scraper#28 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2022
YAML configuration for PDF shots Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

simonw/shot-scraper#27 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2022
More options for `shot-scraper pdf` Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

simonw/shot-scraper#26 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2022
if the CSS selector is used and the container is taller than the viewport, it seems to cut it Open

bug research

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#19 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2022
Annotation mechanism for pink arrows and suchlike Open

research

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

simonw/shot-scraper#9 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 9, 2022

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