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[simonw]

Here's a GitHub code search which shows repos that people have created using my template: https://github.com/search?q=shot-scraper-template+-user%3Asi...

My favourite so far is this one, which is taking screenshots of a variety of French news websites: https://github.com/ggtr1138/UneJournaux

[uniqueuid → simonw]

This is an awesome tool, as all of yours!

Just to mention: The example of french news websites shows that popovers and consent forms are a serious problem for this kind of screenshotting.

Do you have any thoughts on how to best deal with them?

[simonw → uniqueuid]

Yes - you can run extra JavaScript to hide those before you take the screenshot. Example here: https://github.com/palewire/news-homepages/issues/4#issuecom...