Scheduled Screenshots

Alex explains in this article how to automatically take regular screenshots of their website.
The automation happens with a GitHub Action that uses Playwright to take the screenshots and then stores them in the Git repository.
Alex has made the repo public, thus we can have a look at how this is implemented.

I followed the steps listed in their repo and did setup my own scheduled screenshots repo.
It will now take some screenshots of my blog once per month.

A project for the future will be to leverage the Internet Archive to backfill my repo with blog screenshots of the last 22 years 😅
Thankfully Alex did some pioneering work on this already and wrote two articles which will become handy:

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