Developer builds Chrome extension ScrollFlow to auto-scroll and record full web pages

A developer created ScrollFlow, a Chrome extension that automates page scrolling while recording the screen, addressing limitations of both static screenshots and manual screen recordings. The tool operates entirely on the user's device, with no page content sent to remote servers, and finished video files download locally. ScrollFlow offers two recording modes: live capture, which films the actual tab including animations and dynamic content, and Cinema mode, which pans a virtual camera over a static full-page image for controlled, clean recordings. The extension tackles challenges such as lazy-loaded content, collapsing banners, scroll-snap libraries, and infinite feeds that can cause auto-scroll to misjudge page length. The developer acknowledges the tool does not work perfectly on every website, as keeping a dynamic document, the browser's capture pipeline, and the video encoder in sync remains a difficult technical problem.
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