How can I take a screenshot with Selenium WebDriver?

Question

Is it possible to take a screenshot using Selenium WebDriver?

(Note: Not Selenium Remote Control)

Answer 1

Ruby

time = Time.now.strftime('%a_%e_%Y_%l_%m_%p_%M_%S')
file_path = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + 'screens_shot')+'/'+time +'.png'
#driver.save_screenshot(file_path)
page.driver.browser.save_screenshot file_path

Answer 2

Ruby (Cucumber)

After do |scenario| 
    if(scenario.failed?)
        puts "after step is executed"
    end
    time = Time.now.strftime('%a_%e_%Y_%l_%m_%p_%M')

    file_path = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../../../mlife_screens_shot')+'/'+time +'.png'

    page.driver.browser.save_screenshot file_path
end

Given /^snapshot$/ do
    time = Time.now.strftime('%a_%e_%Y_%l_%m_%p_%M')

    file_path = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../../../mlife_screens_shot')+'/'+time +'.png'
    page.driver.browser.save_screenshot file_path
end

Answer 3

There are multiple methods through Selenium's Java and Python client to take a screenshot using Selenium WebDriver.

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Java Methods

The following are the different Java methods to take a screenshot:

• Using getScreenshotAs() from the TakesScreenshot interface:

• Code block:

       package screenShot;
  
       import java.io.File;
       import java.io.IOException;
  
       import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
       import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
       import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
       import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
       import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
       import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
       import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
  
       public class Firefox_takesScreenshot {
  
           public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
  
               System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
               WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
               driver.get("https://login.bws.birst.com/login.html/");
               new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("Birst"));
               File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
               FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File(".\\Screenshots\\Mads_Cruz_screenshot.png"));
               driver.quit();
           }
       }
  

• Screenshot:

  

• If the webpage is jQuery enabled, you can use ashot from the pazone/ashot library:

• Code block:

       package screenShot;
  
       import java.io.File;
       import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
       import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
       import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
       import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
       import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
  
       import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.AShot;
       import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.Screenshot;
       import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.shooting.ShootingStrategies;
  
       public class ashot_CompletePage_Firefox {
  
           public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  
               System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
               WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
               driver.get("https://jquery.com/");
               new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("jQuery"));
               Screenshot myScreenshot = new AShot().shootingStrategy(ShootingStrategies.viewportPasting(100)).takeScreenshot(driver);
               ImageIO.write(myScreenshot.getImage(),"PNG",new File("./Screenshots/firefoxScreenshot.png"));
               driver.quit();
           }
       }
  

• Screenshot:

  

• Using selenium-shutterbug from assertthat/selenium-shutterbug library:

• Code block:

       package screenShot;
  
       import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
       import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
       import com.assertthat.selenium_shutterbug.core.Shutterbug;
       import com.assertthat.selenium_shutterbug.utils.web.ScrollStrategy;
  
       public class selenium_shutterbug_fullpage_firefox {
  
           public static void main(String[] args) {
  
               System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
               WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
               driver.get("https://www.google.co.in");
               Shutterbug.shootPage(driver, ScrollStrategy.BOTH_DIRECTIONS).save("./Screenshots/");
               driver.quit();
           }
       }
  

• Screenshot:

  

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Python Methods

The following are the different Python methods to take a screenshot:

• Using save_screenshot() method:

• Code block:

       from selenium import webdriver
  
       driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
       driver.get("http://google.com")
       driver.save_screenshot('./Screenshots/save_screenshot_method.png')
       driver.quit()
  

• Screenshot:

  

• Using the get_screenshot_as_file() method:

• Code block:

       from selenium import webdriver
  
       driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
       driver.get("http://google.com")
       driver.get_screenshot_as_file('./Screenshots/get_screenshot_as_file_method.png')
       driver.quit()
  

• Screenshot:

  

• Using get_screenshot_as_png() method:

• Code block:

       from selenium import webdriver
  
       driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
       driver.get("http://google.com")
       screenPnG = driver.get_screenshot_as_png()
  
       # Crop it back to the window size (it may be taller)
       box = (0, 0, 1366, 728)
       im = Image.open(BytesIO(screenPnG))
       region = im.crop(box)
       region.save('./Screenshots/get_screenshot_as_png_method.png', 'PNG', optimize=True, quality=95)
       driver.quit()
  

• Screenshot:

  

Answer 4

PHP

public function takescreenshot($event)
  {
    $errorFolder = dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "ErrorScreenshot";

    if(!file_exists($errorFolder)){
      mkdir($errorFolder);
    }

    if (4 === $event->getResult()) {
      $driver = $this->getSession()->getDriver();
      $screenshot = $driver->getWebDriverSession()->screenshot();
      file_put_contents($errorFolder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Error_' .  time() . '.png', base64_decode($screenshot));
    }
  }

Answer 5

C#

using System;
using OpenQA.Selenium.PhantomJS;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

namespace example.com
{
    class Program
    {
        public static PhantomJSDriver driver;

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            driver = new PhantomJSDriver();
            driver.Manage().Window.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(1280, 1024);
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.example.com/");
            driver.GetScreenshot().SaveAsFile("screenshot.png", ImageFormat.Png);
            driver.Quit();
        }
    }
}

It requires NuGet packages:

1. PhantomJS 2.0.0
2. Selenium.Support 2.48.2
3. Selenium.WebDriver 2.48.2

It was Tested with .NET Framework v4.5.2.

Answer 6

C#

public void TakeScreenshot()
{
    try
    {            
        Screenshot ss = ((ITakesScreenshot)driver).GetScreenshot();
        ss.SaveAsFile(@"D:\Screenshots\SeleniumTestingScreenshot.jpg", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        throw;
    }
}