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How to automate “retake screenshots after UI changes”

Here is the best way to spend less time on this, best first. Each comes with steps you can follow today.

60 min
typically, once a week
60%
of the time can be automated
Some setup
to set up

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Automation

Script your doc screenshots so they retake themselves

A Playwright script can log in, go to each page and capture the screenshots for the docs. Re-run it after each release instead of retaking them by hand.

Typically saves about 60% of the time4 h to set up
  1. 1List the screenshots in your docs and the page or state each one shows.
  2. 2Ask an engineer or a coding agent to write a Playwright script that captures them with seeded demo data.
  3. 3Run it in CI on release and commit the new images to the docs repo.
  4. 4For click-through guides, use Scribe or Tango to capture steps automatically.

Tools: Playwright · Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot to write the script · Scribe or Tango

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Technical writer

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