checkly/headless-recorder
Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2942
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1356
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
15301 stars · 733 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Headless Recorder is a Chrome extension that records browser interactions (clicks, typing, navigation) and generates Playwright or Puppeteer scripts. It was built by Checkly and is fully deprecated as of December 2022.
Use cases
- record browser interactions and export as playwright script
- generate puppeteer code from clicks
- create e2e test scripts without writing code
- record web scraping flows
- capture user actions as automation script
When to choose
- you need a quick way to bootstrap Playwright or Puppeteer scripts from manual browsing
- you want to preview CSS selectors while recording interactions
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the project is deprecated since Dec 2022
- you need modern alternatives like Playwright's built-in codegen
Facets
plugin · maturity abandoned
testing e2e-testing browser-extension developer-tools testing developer-tools browser-extensions browser browser-extension chrome-extension playwright puppeteer test-recording deprecated code-generation automation javascript
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/checkly/headless-recorder · fetched 2026-08-28 · 7c874a948a85
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/headless-recorder · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7b70ad929831
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| checkly/headless-recorder | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="checkly/headless-recorder")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem