Show HN: How we automate our (complex) product screenshots

Yes! I'm so pleased to see this, only because I had the same idea and went ahead and implemented it with playwrite. I also added the ability to add annotations, ie overlayed text, and outlines, ie borders, on certain elements I want to highlight, focus on, explain.

My main problem is that I still had to write the code to do the work (go there, click there, wait for that, etc etc). The good thing was that it took video and screenshots, and embedded them into docusaurus markdown that then built our docs pages.

Seeing other people doing the same makes me think it wasn't such a bad idea after all.. Maybe I should get back on it..

Thanks!

If you have an app that has frequent UI updates this could save you a lot to time. Another scenario that I see is possibility to create localized version of screenshot for different languages. I used to maintain docs on a site that was translated to 10 languages, app was localized to even larger number of languages but I've always used screenshots only on source (original) language.

Wow, that is a nice idea! I will try out something like it for our docs. we don't have a lot of screenshots because it's so much effort to keep them up to date.