checkly/headless-recorder

Headless Recorder was a Chrome extension that recorded your browser interactions, clicks, typing, navigation, and automatically generated a ready-to-run Playwright or Puppeteer script. Playwright and Puppeteer are tools that let developers control a browser programmatically, often used for testing websites or automating repetitive tasks. Instead of writing that automation code by hand, you could just use the browser normally while the extension watched and wrote the code for you. While it was active, the extension could capture click events, double-clicks, form changes, keyboard input, dropdown selections, and page loads. It also offered extras like pausing and resuming a recording session, previewing CSS selectors (the identifiers that point to specific page elements), taking full-page or element screenshots, and copying the generated script to your clipboard. Scripts could also be run directly on Checkly, a monitoring platform made by the same team. Note that as of December 16th, 2022, Headless Recorder is fully deprecated, no new changes, support, maintenance, or features are planned. The README points to an issue thread for more information and possible alternatives. The project was released under the MIT license.