Headless Recorder

A Chrome extension for recording browser interaction and generating Puppeteer & Playwright scripts
What is Headless Recorder?
Headless Recorder is a popular open-source Chrome extension that allows users to effortlessly generate Puppeteer & Playwright scripts by recording their browser interactions. It is perfect for creating E2E test scripts, web scraping scripts, and synthetic monitoring scripts. The extension features click and input event recording, screenshot recording, navigation pauses, element identification, event monitoring, code export, and customizable settings. It is actively developed and constantly updated with more events and actions.

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-12-16
Users: 31,019+
Rating: 4.28 (40)
Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2021-08-25)
Creation date: 2020-06-11
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • webNavigation
  • activeTab
  • cookies
  • *://*/
Size: 1.88M

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Extension summary

Headless Recorder is a popular open-source Chrome extension to easily generate Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding šŸš€

The free extension makes writing Playwright/Puppeteer scripts way easier. It records your browser interactions and auto-generates the code. This is super useful for creating:

šŸ‘‰ E2E test scripts šŸ‘‰ Web scraping scripts šŸ‘‰ Synthetic monitoring scripts

Headless Recorder features:

  • Record clicks, input events, etc.
  • Record screenshots.
  • Pause the recording when navigating.
  • Identify elements from the overlay.
  • Monitor recorded events.
  • Export to Puppeteer code or to Checkly
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User reviews

is this handling input events like type on input etc?
by Balwinder Kumar, 2022-08-29

Thanks @checklyhq.com. Excellent !
by Rogerio M. Souza, 2022-04-11

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by lyrics for you, 2022-02-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Headless Recorder requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Headless Recorder may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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