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How to take screenshots of a website in Python?

I would like to take screenshots of a URL. Say, when I open a website www.espncricinfo.com , I would like to take a screenshot of that page and save it locally. This saved image can be converted to GIF later on.

How could this be achieved through Python?

And also, is it possible launch the browser in headless mode (non-GUI) and then take the screenshot of particular area of the web page?

Solution

  • To take a screenshot using python:

    import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab

im = ImageGrab.grab()

im.save('path/to/image/folder/image_name.png')

im.show()