open a browser page and take screenshot every n hour in python 3

Question

I want to open a web page then take a screenshot every 2 hours via python. here is my code to open a page at every 2 hour interval

import time
import webbrowser
total_breaks = 12
break_count = 0

while(break_count < total_breaks):
    time.sleep(7200)
    webbrowser.open("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2")
    break_count = break_count + 1

i followed Take a screenshot of open website in python script but didn't get any success I am using python 3.5 . I got a module wxpython but it supportts only 2.x . So is there way to take a screen shot every 2 hours using python 3

Have you tried selenium? Also, instead of doing a `time.sleep(7200)`, write a cronjob to run every 2 hours. — ishaan, Jan 23 '16 at 09:49
FWIW, there are probably better / more powerful ways to get the information that you _really_ want than by taking screenshots. — PM 2Ring, Jan 23 '16 at 09:54
@ishaan Thhanks for the info. I am looking at selenium now .. — Equinox, Jan 23 '16 at 10:57

BoreBoar · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-23T14:11:14.070

Here's what you have to with Selenium to get started.

Install Selenium using pip by pip install selenium in the command prompt.

Make sure you have the python path in your environment variables.

Run this script by changing the email and the password below.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.implicitly_wait(30)
browser.get('https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/&ss=1&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&emr=1&osid=1#identifier')
email = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Email"]')
email.clear()
email.send_keys("email@gmail.com")  # change email
email.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
password = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Passwd"]')
password.clear()
password.send_keys("password")  # Change Password
password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(10)
browser.save_screenshot('screen_shot.png')
browser.close()

And finally you can run schtask on the saved python file from the command prompt. schtask is the CRON equivalent on windows.

schtasks /Create /SC MINUTE /MO  120 /TN screenshot /TR "PATH_TO_PYTHON_FILE\FILE.py"

open a browser page and take screenshot every n hour in python 3

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