How to make screenshot from web page?

Question

How to make screenshot from any url (web page)?

I was trying:

from .ghost import Ghost
ghost = Ghost(wait_timeout=4)
ghost.open('http://www.google.com')
ghost.capture_to('screen_shot.png')

Result:

No module named '__main__.ghost'; '__main__' is not a package

I was trying also:

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I've also tried other methods that are not listed here. Nothing succeeded. Or an error or module is not found .. or or or. I'm tired. Is there an easy way to make a screenshot of a web page using Python 3.X?

upd1:

C:\prg\PY\PUMA\tests>py save-web-html.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "save-web-html.py", line 2, in <module>
from .ghost import Ghost
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '__main__.ghost'; '__main__' is not a package

upd2:

C:\prg\PY\PUMA\tests>py save-web-html.py
Exception ignored in: <bound method Ghost.__del__ of <ghost.ghost.Ghost object at 0x0000020A169CF860>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Coar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ghost\ghost.py", line 325, in __del__
    self.exit()
  File "C:\Users\Coar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ghost\ghost.py", line 315, in exit
    self._app.quit()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'quit'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "save-web-html.py", line 4, in <module>
    ghost = Ghost(wait_timeout=4)
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'wait_timeout'

No, few py files. But no one of them named ghost.py I was tring to find any working solution, but it always not work. — Ievgen, Mar 01 '18 at 12:10
C:\Users\Coar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ghost\__init__.py — Ievgen, Mar 01 '18 at 12:22

FraggaMuffin · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01T13:14:57.223

In the late 80's this may have been a simple task, just render some html to an image instead of the screen.

But these days web-pages require client-side execution to build parts of its DOM and re-render based on client-side initiated AJAX (or equivalent) requests... it's a whole thing "web 2.0" thing.

Rendering a web-site such as http://google.com as a simple html return should be easy, but rendering something like https://www.facebook.com/ or https://www.kogan.com/ will have many back & fourth comms to display what you're expecting to see.

So restricting this to a pure python solution may not be plausible; I'm not aware of a python-based browser. Consider running a separate service to take the screenshots, and use your core application (in python) to fetch requested screenshots.

I just tried a few with docker, many of them struggle with https and the aforementioned ajax behaviour.

earlyclaim/docker-manet appears to work demo page

edit: from your comments, you need the data from a graph that's rendered using a 2nd request.

you just need the json return from https://www.minnowbooster.net/limit/chart

try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen  # py3
except ImportError:
    from urllib2 import urlopen  # py2
import json

url = 'https://www.minnowbooster.net/limit/chart'

response = urlopen(url)
data_str = response.read().decode()
data = json.loads(data_str)

print(data)

I'm just need collect some data information from site. This Data in the chart. So best way do this - via screenshot. But today is clearly not my day — Ievgen, Mar 01 '18 at 12:33
No module named 'urllib2'. But I can solve this problem by other methods. Thank you for finding this URL. We can consider the issue closed. — Ievgen, Mar 01 '18 at 13:05

How to make screenshot from web page?

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