How to export game animation frames to separate PNGs?

I bought an Illustrator file that contains several animation frames for a game. Every frame is a single group and they are all on the same layer. How can I quickly export all these groups, each to a separate PNG file?

Create layers from the group via the layer panel's menu
Then use one of the layer export scripts, like this one http://www.arcticmill.com/2012/08/export-layers-as-png-files-from-illustrator-in-multiple- resolutions.html

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