Best way to automate screnshots from a list of URL's in OSX

June 5, 2018 9:13 AM

On a regular basis I have a list of web URLS (mostly from Instagram, Flickr and Twitter) that I need to collect screenshots of. I have been doing this manually, but would like to automate the process; i.e. I generate a list of URL's and it gives me screenshots of each page. I am on a Mac/OSX. Thanks!
posted by brbmaroon to Technology (5 answers total)

Best answer: You can do that with Chrome in headless mode.

Match with the scripting option of your choice (say like looping the url list in your shell)and it looks like you should be set.
posted by mce at 9:32 AM on June 5, 2018

Best answer: There's automated websites that will do this for you too.
posted by Happy Dave at 10:25 AM on June 5, 2018

Best answer: A friend of mine uses this neat thing for harvesting images of various elements in webpages.
posted by klausman at 12:23 PM on June 5, 2018

Best answer: My developer coworker just did this exact thing for hundreds of URLs using Selenium. I'm pretty sure he used Chrome, but it works with multiple browsers if need be. There is some coding know-how involved, though.
posted by fifthpocket at 7:08 AM on June 6, 2018

Best answer: Paparazzi! is great. It's a very easy to use GUI app, but it also does batch processing of text files of URLs, and it has a command line tool which can be installed. Plus it's free.
posted by bigtex at 8:41 PM on June 7, 2018