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The shot-scraper, pdf, html, accessibility and har commands gained a --js-file option that loads JavaScript from a local file, standard input, or a gh:username/script reference, as an alternative to the existing --javascript option which takes a JavaScript string directly.
A new --js-file flag lets several shot-scraper commands load JavaScript from a file, stdin, or a GitHub-hosted script instead of only inline strings. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-12 · original ↗
The shot-scraper, pdf, html, accessibility and har commands now have a --js-file option for loading JavaScript from a local file, standard input or gh:username/script, as an alternative to --javascript which accepts the string of JavaScript directly as an argument.
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- ·New --js-file flag loads JS for several commands
- ·Applies to pdf, html, accessibility, har commands
- ·Alternative to existing --javascript string argument
- ·Load from a local file on disk
- ·Read JavaScript from standard input
- ·Reference gh:username/script on GitHub
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