Capture Twitter screenhots
To capture Twitter pages, Stillio needs a bit of information from your Twitter account. You'll copy a cookie from Twitter and add it to the Cookies field on the Advanced settings tab of your webpage.
⚠️ Note: Cookies contain authentication data, so don't share them with others. This article only describes the technical steps. Use it at your own risk.
This approach is not a silver bullet. Because it involves a third-party service, we can't guarantee it works, so it's experimental and unsupported.
Why is using cookies important while capturing?
Here are two captures of the same page: one without cookies and one with.
Without cookies
With cookies
Here, we use the EditThisCookie Chrome extension to fetch cookie data. For an approach that works in other browsers, see Capture screenshots by setting cookies on a page.
⚠️ Note: Twitter cookies are valid for up to a year, but they can expire sooner if you log out of Twitter on other devices. When you log in again, update the cookies in Stillio too 😅
Step 1:
Download this Google extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg?hl=en.
Step 2:
Visit the Twitter page you want to capture (make sure you're logged in), look for the extension icon, and click on it:
Step 3:
Copy the value of the field labeled " auth_token" and add or edit the webpage in Stillio.
Step 4a:
Paste the value in this format auth_token=cookievalue into the Cookies field on the Advanced settings tab:
Step 4b:
Do the same for the _twitter_sess cookie (_twitter_sess=cookievalue) and add it on a new line below the auth_token cookie.
Step 5 (optional):
Setting the delay to 5 seconds tends to give better results. Go to the Basics tab and click the Delay chip. You can go higher if you like.
Step 6:
Save the webpage. Congratulations, you're all set 🎉
⚠️ Note: Twitter screenshots are often very long, so you may want to set a fixed height.
Screenshots keep appearing with login banner on them
Most likely, your Twitter cookies have expired. Log in to Twitter again, then update the cookies in Stillio.