I need to write a python script which opens a website and when the website is completly opened it takes a screenshot of the opened website.
I wrote sth like this:
import webbrowser
import wx
wx.App()
link = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions"
webbrowser.get('firefox %s').open_new_tab(link)
screen = wx.ScreenDC()
size = screen.GetSize()
bmp = wx.EmptyBitmap(size[0], size[1])
mem = wx.MemoryDC(bmp)
mem.Blit(0, 0, size[0], size[1], screen, 0, 0)
del mem
bmp.SaveFile('screenshot.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG)
It only opens a new tab in firefox but it doesnt take a screenshot of it :(
I want the solution to be cross-platform. Thanks for any help:)
EDIT:
The main problem here is that the script musnt take a picture BEFORE my webpage is completly opened. How to solve that issue?
This solution is fairly cross-platform, but if you're trying to show a bit of a web page open in a desktop with menu/toolbars etc... it's not what you want.
You could use SeleniumHQ to automate a browser of your choice, have that browser render the page, then get the complete image of the rendered page - ie, not just a screenshot of the portion of the page that's displayed on screen. You could then crop that accordingly.
I believe that you need different solutions for different operating systems. Use sys.platform
to find out on which platform you are on. The rest you have to figure out yourself, but a quick internet search revealed:
- On Linux systems, you can then take a screenshot as described here:
Take a screenshot via a python script. [Linux]
- On Windows systems, you can base your solution on this answer:
Fastest way to take a screenshot with python on windows
- On Mac systems, this will help:
Take screenshot in Python on Mac OS X
According to this question, you should be able to use ImageGrab to take a screenshot. Since ImageGrab uses PIL, this should be cross-platform. Here is some sample code to get you on your way
Hope this helps