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707 points namukang | 8 comments | 17 Nov 21 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 1.152s | source | bottom
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jonshariat ◴[17 Nov 21 18:59 UTC] No.29257328[source]▶
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.

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1. dkthehuman ◴[17 Nov 21 19:08 UTC] No.29257440[source]▶
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.

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2. KennyBlanken ◴[17 Nov 21 19:24 UTC] No.29257671[source]▶
> and save them to Google Drive

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

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3. soperj ◴[17 Nov 21 19:39 UTC] No.29257865[source]▶
How much are you offering for this feature?
4. RandomBookmarks ◴[17 Nov 21 19:45 UTC] No.29257959[source]▶
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

5. dkthehuman ◴[17 Nov 21 19:56 UTC] No.29258114[source]▶
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.

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6. kyawzazaw ◴[17 Nov 21 20:14 UTC] No.29258282[source]▶
Do you think you would buy this if it does? Seems pricing is high
7. toomuchtodo ◴[18 Nov 21 00:27 UTC] No.29260725{3}[source]▶
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...

8. dotancohen ◴[18 Nov 21 07:14 UTC] No.29262892{3}[source]▶
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.