shot-scraper 1.12 Adds WebP Screenshot Support
The latest shot-scraper release adds native WebP screenshot capability, offering size‑efficient images with optional quality settings.
The open‑source screenshot automation tool shot-scraper has been updated to version 1.12, introducing native WebP support. Users can now generate a WebP image of any web page with a simple command, for example:
``bash shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 ``
The --quality flag controls compression; omitting it produces a lossless WebP file. In tests, WebP screenshots are consistently smaller than comparable JPEG or PNG files, as demonstrated in the associated pull request.
Simon Willison, the project's maintainer, added this feature to streamline the creation of screenshots for his new commit‑rewrite tool. The release notes and source code are available on GitHub.
For more details, see the official release page and the pull request that includes size comparisons.
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