Extension to automate screenshots using a carousel

Question

Despite multiple searches I am asking as most responses do seem quite old now.

Essentially, I want to take screenshots of a single webpage with a five slot carousel. I want to screengrab each carousel and save automatically in a folder defined by time/date.

I need the software to render and save each page, move the carousel on and repeat. The business I work for needs to do this manually several times a day and I can't help but think there is a quicker way.

I know that JS is very unlikely so a bookmarklet unlikely. However as this will be entirely client-side, does anyone know the best route to take with an extension at all?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand you question correctly but I'm going to to answer anyway

• There is experimental Chrome API to capture visible page
• There is a lot of capture extensions in the WebStore, they used canvas to capture current page if I recall correctly, but I checked this long time ago. However you could check their code. I'm not sure if you asked about extension only code or about client code as well but I suspect such approach would work for client scripts as well

Hope this helps. Drop me the message if you need help with such extension development