Heroshot – Define screenshots once, regenerate with one command
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I built Heroshot to solve a problem I kept hitting: documentation screenshots go stale and updating them manually is tedious.With Heroshot you define what to capture in a JSON config (URLs, CSS selectors, viewports, light/dark mode), run `npx heroshot`, and get a browser with a visual picker. Click elements to configure captures, close the browser, run `heroshot capture`, and you're done.Features that have been useful in practice: - Visual picker - click elements on a live page instead of writing selectors by hand - Per-domain element hiding - suppress cookie banners, chat widgets globally per domain - Dark/light mode - captures both variants in one run - Annotations - arrows, boxes, highlig
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Website: heroshot.sh
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