python - Webdriver Screenshot

Question

When taking a screenshot using Selenium Webdriver on windows with python, the screenshot is saved directly to the path of the program, is there a way to save the .png file to a specific directory?

Answer 1

Use driver.save_screenshot('/path/to/file') or driver.get_screenshot_as_file('/path/to/file'):

import selenium.webdriver as webdriver
import contextlib

@contextlib.contextmanager
def quitting(thing):
    yield thing
    thing.quit()

with quitting(webdriver.Firefox()) as driver:
    driver.implicitly_wait(10)
    driver.get('http://www.google.com')
    driver.get_screenshot_as_file('/tmp/google.png') 
    # driver.save_screenshot('/tmp/google.png')

Answer 2

Inspired from this thread (same question for Java): Take a screenshot with Selenium WebDriver

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com/')
browser.save_screenshot('screenie.png')
browser.quit()

Answer 3

Yes, we have a way to get screenshot extension of .png using python webdriver

use below code if you working in python webriver.it is very simple.

driver.save_screenshot('D\folder\filename.png')

Answer 4

driver.save_screenshot("path to save \\screen.jpeg")

Answer 5

Here they asked a similar question, and the answer seems more complete, I leave the source:

How to take partial screenshot with Selenium WebDriver in python?

from selenium import webdriver
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO

fox = webdriver.Firefox()
fox.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')

# now that we have the preliminary stuff out of the way time to get that image :D
element = fox.find_element_by_id('hlogo') # find part of the page you want image of
location = element.location
size = element.size
png = fox.get_screenshot_as_png() # saves screenshot of entire page
fox.quit()

im = Image.open(BytesIO(png)) # uses PIL library to open image in memory

left = location['x']
top = location['y']
right = location['x'] + size['width']
bottom = location['y'] + size['height']


im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom)) # defines crop points
im.save('screenshot.png') # saves new cropped image

Answer 6

This will take screenshot and place it in a directory of a chosen name.

import os
driver.save_screenshot(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'NameOfScreenShotDirectory', 'PutFileNameHere'))

Answer 7

Sure it isn't actual right now but I faced this issue also and my way: Looks like 'save_screenshot' have some troubles with creating files with space in name same time as I added randomization to filenames for escaping override.

Here I got method to clean my filename of whitespaces (How do I replace whitespaces with underscore and vice versa?):

def urlify(self, s):
    # Remove all non-word characters (everything except numbers and letters)
    s = re.sub(r"[^\w\s]", '', s)
    # Replace all runs of whitespace with a single dash
    s = re.sub(r"\s+", '-', s)
    return s

then

driver.save_screenshot('c:\\pytest_screenshots\\%s' % screen_name)

where

def datetime_now(prefix):
    symbols = str(datetime.datetime.now())
    return prefix + "-" + "".join(symbols)

screen_name = self.urlify(datetime_now('screen')) + '.png'

Answer 8

You can use below function for relative path as absolute path is not a good idea to add in script

Import

import sys, os

Use code as below :

ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
screenshotpath = os.path.join(os.path.sep, ROOT_DIR,'Screenshots'+ os.sep)
driver.get_screenshot_as_file(screenshotpath+"testPngFunction.png")

make sure you create the folder where the .py file is present.

os.path.join also prevent you to run your script in cross-platform like: UNIX and windows. It will generate path separator as per OS at runtime. os.sep is similar like File.separtor in java

Answer 9

TakeScreenShot screenshot=new TakeScreenShot();
screenshot.screenShot("screenshots//TestScreenshot//password.png");

it will work , please try.

Answer 10

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("c:\\NewFolder\\screenshot1.jpg"));

Answer 11

Have a look on the below python script to take snap of FB homepage by using selenium package of Chrome web driver.

Script:

import selenium

from selenium import webdriver

import time

from time import sleep

chrome_browser = webdriver.Chrome()

chrome_browser.get('https://www.facebook.com/') # Enter to FB login page

sleep(5)

chrome_browser.save_screenshot('C:/Users/user/Desktop/demo.png') # To take FB homepage snap

chrome_browser.close() # To Close the driver connection

chrome_browser.quit() # To Close the browser

Answer 12

I understand you are looking for an answer in python, but here is how one would do it in ruby..

http://watirwebdriver.com/screenshots/

If that only works by saving in current directory only.. I would first assign the image to a variable and then save that variable to disk as a PNG file.

eg:

 image = b.screenshot.png

 File.open("testfile.png", "w") do |file|
  file.puts "#{image}"
 end

where b is the browser variable used by webdriver. i have the flexibility to provide an absolute or relative path in "File.open" so I can save the image anywhere.