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Overview

Headless Recorder 1.0 is live 🚀

Headless Recorder is a Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script. Use it to create Checkly browser checks without writing any code.

Headless Recorder has the following features:

• Records clicks and type events.
• Records form entries like dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes etc.
• Records screenshots.
• Adds waitForNavigation, setViewport/setViewportSize and other useful clauses.
• Generates Playwright or Puppeteer scripts, ready for copy & pasting.
• Previews selectors for elements on hover.
• Shows which events are being recorded.
• Offers configuration options to tweak the generated code.
• Run your checks directly on Checkly.
• Is open source. Check the code on the GitHub repo, PRs are welcome! 🙌

Next steps

• Install Headless Recorder and tweak some options.
• Learn how to record scripts.
• Learn about some of the current limitations of Headless Recorder and how to file bugs and feature request.