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Headless Recorder

Stale
GitHub JavaScript MIT

Description

Record browser actions and export to Playwright / Puppeteer code.

Key Features

  • Record — One-click browser action recording
  • Code gen — Output Playwright / Puppeteer scripts
  • POM mode — Page Object Model export
  • Cross-browser — Chrome / Edge extension
  • Replayable — Generated scripts can be re-run for debugging

Use Cases

💡 Generate browser scripts for E2E tests fast.
💡 Record steps for scraper scripts.
💡 Automation workflow recording for non-engineers.

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • High community interest (15.3k stars)
  • • Permissive open-source license (MIT)
  • • Responsive to issues, low backlog

⚠️ Limitations

  • • No updates in over 44 months

Tags

recorder playwright puppeteer browser-agent

Categories

🌐 Browser Agent

Quick Start

# Install the Headless Recorder Chrome extension
# Open the target site and click the extension to start
# Click Stop when done and copy the generated Playwright code
# Save as my_test.spec.ts and run
npx playwright test my_test.spec.ts
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