As part of our work documenting R-Universe, we’re adding screenshots of the interface to the documentation website. Taking screenshots manually could quickly become very cumbersome, especially as we expect they’ll need updating in future: we might want to change the universes we feature, the interface might improve yet again and therefore look slightly different. Therefore, we decided to opt for a programmatic approach. In this post we shall present our learnings from using the R packages chromote and magick to produce …