How to Automate Screenshots in Your CI/CD Pipeline

How to Automate Screenshots in Your CI/CD Pipeline Every deploy is a visual change. Buttons move. Colors shift. Layouts break. You can't catch all of it manually. What if your CI/CD pipeline automatically captured screenshots after each deploy? Stored them. Compared them. Surfaced visual regressions before they hit production? That's what this tutorial covers. We'll add screenshot automation to GitHub Actions using PageBolt's API. The Setup What you'll need: A GitHub repository with GitHub Actions enabled A staging environment (or production) A PageBolt API key (free tier: 100 screenshots/month) 15 minutes What you'll get: Screenshots captured after every deploy Before/after comparison storage Visual regression detection (manual review) Artifact logs for debugging Step 1: Store Your API Key as a Secret In GitHub: Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → New repository secret Name: PAGEBOLT_API_KEY Value: your-actual-api-key-here Your workflow will access it as ${{ secrets.PAGEBOLT_