One Year Of Shots
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I've been running my shot scraper api for a year now. It creates og images for my website and thumbnails for my reader using a headless chrome instance.

Date: December 9, 2025

I’ve been running my shot scraper api for a year now. It creates og </og/> images for my website and thumbnails for my Reader </reader/> using a headless chrome instance.

- 25870 shots
- 73 shots per day on average
- 12-09-2025 first shot taken

Histogram
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Image: histogram of shots <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/63705078-3342-4807-b5fd-46a0860efc27.webp>

a histogram of shot counts by day

You can see in the histogram that I’ve had a few big spike days, This has been mostly for days that I’ve integrated into a new service or changed the endpoint. On February 13, 2025 I swapped over from using the post to using template specific to open graph images.

```
-content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"
+content = "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url={{ config.url }}{{ post.slug }}/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600"
```

VSPLIT Image Comparison
│ VSPLIT Original Post Image
│ │ Image: <https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https://dev.waylonwalker.com/one-year-of-shots/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600>
│ │
│ │ originally I simply used an image of the post itself
│
│ VSPLIT New OG Image
│ │ Image: <https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https://dev.waylonwalker.com/one-year-of-shots/og/&height=600&width=1200&scaled_width=1200&scaled_height=600>
│ │
│ │ In Feb 2025 I made OG specific templates to use for the OG images.

│ Swapping to og images

Collage
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For fun I made a collage of all the shots. It’s cool to see all of these together, I remember a lot of the thumbnails and posts. Many of them from my rss reader.

Image: collage of shots <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/5d4b46a6-79d6-4320-bf7d-f917c862c57d.webp>

collage of all shots, click to see full size

I tried to make a video collage, but turns out it takes a long time to show all 25k shots in video form. It also turned out to be a bit of a strobe as I don’t yet have it figured out how to dark mode in headless chrome.

Video: <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c629d32-4284-4c71-a4f7-62d82e445c7d.webm>

video collage of 600 shots, I tried to include all, but even at 20fps its a 20 minute video.