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title: "Simon Willison on X: \"TIL Google Chrome has a --headless optio..."
description: "!https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1772043579231445366"
date: 2024-03-25
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  - dev
  - thought
  - webdev
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      <div class="embed-card-title">Simon Willison (@simonw) on X</div>
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      <div class="embed-card-meta">X (formerly Twitter) &middot; twitter.com</div>
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Huh, so this is just built right into the chrome cli.

``` python
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome \
  --headless \
  --screenshot=/tmp/shot1.png \
  https://simonwillison.net
```