piscisaureus / svg-screenshots

📸🧩 Browser extension to take scalable, semantic, accessible screenshots of websites in SVG format.

SVG Screenshots Browser Extension

Browser extension to take semantic, scalable, accessible screenshots of websites, as SVG - as simple as taking a PNG screenshot.

Why use this?

SVG screenshots offer various benefits over normal PNG screenshots, while keeping the good parts:

• 🖼 Flexible: Freely select the region of the website you want to capture or capture the whole page.
• 💢 Scalable graphics: Screenshots never get pixelated when zooming in.
• 📝 Semantic: Text can still be selected and copied to clipboard.
• 🦻 Accessible: SVG is annotated with ARIA attributes and can be read by screen readers.
• 🖥 Paste into design tools: SVGs will work in design tools like Illustrator, Figma, Sketch etc.
• 🔗 Interactive: Links are still clickable.
• 📦 Self-contained: Inlines external resources like images, fonts, etc.
• 📸 Static: Styles and layout are recorded at the time of snapshot and will not change.
• 🗜 Small: Depending on the content, SVGs can be magnitudes smaller than PNGs and compress loslessly.
• 🛡 Secure: The SVG will not run any JavaScript.