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Show HN: BugReplay – video, network and console log recording for web apps

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A little over a year ago I was frustrated trying to get to the bottom of a user's report of a problem with the webapp. I was thinking about how if we're really lucky a user would send us a screencast but usually we get far less in the report.

That's when the idea for BugReplay was conceived: If we could make it easy for someone to record network traffic, video and all the supporting information and send it to us in a packaged format that would save an insane amount of time.

My two cofounders and I have been (mostly) heads down since then getting to the point where it's at now. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

If anyone wants to just check out a sample report, here's one I posted to hn in June recreating an ebay vulnurability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002579

I've always had a fair amount of joy from getting users to submit selenium recordings so I can replay the exact clicks to test - and then turn it into a selenese test suite case.

This seems to be video only, no way to reproduce the clicks - is the latter on the roadmap?

(also, some sort of idiotic chat widget popped up at the bottom of your site resulting in me closing the window with a headache, I'm not at all fond of web pages making unsolicited high pitch noises at me when I'm on my first coffee)

Yeah actually recording a click path is a great idea. We had not thought about recording the paths as a separate data stream. It is not video only, it records network traffic and devtools console messages (network errors, js errors, debug logs etc.) Sorry about the chat widget, I'll check if it is mute-able :)

Linked to the post rather than the actual report, actual report is here: https://app.bugreplay.com/shared/report/3efa632d-5b51-45f1-a...

What are some interesting use cases you're seeing for this other than for QA? Would love to know how people are using this out the in wild.

It's a great way to demonstrate application vulnerabilities for security research like the eBay example I pasted below [1].

It's also great for understanding data flows; how a website is working and what kind of requests it is making.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461788

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