How to save a web page as a picture with python?

Question

I want to save a web page as a picture with python but I don't know how to do.

Is there any package (or open-source software) could help me ?

here're [several code examples to get the screenshot of a web page (calling chrome as external command, driving headless chrome using selenium, driving firefox using marionette, and pyppeteer for chrome (text in Russian, code in Python)](https://ru.stackoverflow.com/a/821319/23044) — jfs, Jul 05 '18 at 19:36

anon582847382 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-05T15:46:02.080

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You could use (or inspect the code from) pywebshot, an open source tool that seems to do exactly what you need.

$ ./pywebshot.py -t 500x250 http://stackoverflow.com http://meta.stackoverflow.com
Loading http://stackoverflow.com... saved as stackoverflow.com.png
Loading http://meta.stackoverflow.com... saved as meta.stackoverflow.com.png

edited Mar 05 '14 at 15:46

answered Mar 05 '14 at 07:25

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note: `pywebshot` requires [`python-gtkmozembed`](http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html) package – jfs Mar 05 '14 at 16:19
Very true, it's all in the hyperlink. – anon582847382 Mar 05 '14 at 16:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

You could use selenium webdriver to get a screenshot in different browsers e.g., in Chrome:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome

url, filename = 'http://www.stackoverflow.com', '/tmp/stackoverflow.com.png'

browser = Chrome()
try:
    browser.get(url)
    browser.get_screenshot_as_file(filename)
finally:
    browser.quit()

xvfb allows to run selenium headlessly (without GUI) if you want to take many screenshots in parallel. See also Is it possible to run selenium (Firefox) web driver without a GUI?.

Note: there is a bug chrome driver 2 makes screenshot just of visible part of page. See workarounds there.

How to save a web page as a picture with python?

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