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I find myself taking screenshots of websites all the time. Pages that I find visually interesting, because I've had far too many experiences where I went back a
by daverecycles 16y ago
I find myself taking screenshots of websites all the time. Pages that I find visually interesting, because I've had far too many experiences where I went back and it looks like a completely different website. Or sometimes to remember information that is shown on a website for only a short period of time, like holiday layouts and fun coming soon pages. And I even take screenshots of my own webpages so I can look back at it later.
I know there's archive.org, but they take too long to archive content when all I want is a screenshot of the recent past of a webpage.
So I created SnapRobot as a side project. It was built in less than a day.
You feed it a URL and leave it. SnapRobot monitors the page, taking screenshots whenever changes occur. You can come back whenever you want and relive pages of the past. :)
In the example, you can see how the top Hacker News items evolve over the course of a day.
Currently, any HTML change triggers a new screenshot so it works better for websites that don't dynamically generate different code on every request. No query strings for now.