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How can I take a screenshot/image of a website using Python?

January 31, 2023 by Tarik

Here is a simple solution using webkit: http://webscraping.com/blog/Webpage-screenshots-with-webkit/ import sys import time from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * from PyQt4.QtWebKit import * class Screenshot(QWebView): def __init__(self): self.app = QApplication(sys.argv) QWebView.__init__(self) self._loaded = False self.loadFinished.connect(self._loadFinished) def capture(self, url, output_file): self.load(QUrl(url)) self.wait_load() # set to webpage size frame = self.page().mainFrame() self.page().setViewportSize(frame.contentsSize()) # render image image … Read more

How to make a movie out of images in python

January 30, 2023 by Tarik

You could consider using an external tool like ffmpeg to merge the images into a movie (see answer here) or you could try to use OpenCv to combine the images into a movie like the example here. I’m attaching below a code snipped I used to combine all png files from a folder called “images” … Read more

How to capture the screenshot of a specific element rather than entire page using Selenium Webdriver?

January 21, 2023 by Tarik

We can get the element screenshot by cropping entire page screenshot as below: driver.get(“http://www.google.com”); WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.id(“hplogo”)); // Get entire page screenshot File screenshot = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE); BufferedImage fullImg = ImageIO.read(screenshot); // Get the location of element on the page Point point = ele.getLocation(); // Get width and height of the element int eleWidth = … Read more

Take a screenshot via a Python script on Linux

January 19, 2023 by Tarik

This works without having to use scrot or ImageMagick. import gtk.gdk w = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window() sz = w.get_size() print “The size of the window is %d x %d” % sz pb = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB,False,8,sz[0],sz[1]) pb = pb.get_from_drawable(w,w.get_colormap(),0,0,0,0,sz[0],sz[1]) if (pb != None): pb.save(“screenshot.png”,”png”) print “Screenshot saved to screenshot.png.” else: print “Unable to get the screenshot.” Borrowed from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2681009&postcount=5

How can I save a screenshot directly to a file in Windows? [closed]

December 23, 2022 by Tarik

There is no way to save directly to a file without a 3rd party tool before Windows 8. Here are my personal favorite non-third party tool solutions. For Windows 8 and later + PrintScreen saves the screenshot into a folder in <user>/Pictures/Screenshots For Windows 7 In win 7 just use the snipping tool: Most easily … Read more

How to convert a UIView to an image

December 15, 2022 by Tarik

An extension on UIView should do the trick. extension UIView { // Using a function since `var image` might conflict with an existing variable // (like on `UIImageView`) func asImage() -> UIImage { let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(bounds: bounds) return renderer.image { rendererContext in layer.render(in: rendererContext.cgContext) } } } Apple discourages using UIGraphicsBeginImageContext starting iOS 10 … Read more

Is there a way to take a screenshot using Java and save it to some sort of image?

December 9, 2022 by Tarik

Believe it or not, you can actually use java.awt.Robot to “create an image containing pixels read from the screen.” You can then write that image to a file on disk. I just tried it, and the whole thing ends up like: Rectangle screenRect = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()); BufferedImage capture = new Robot().createScreenCapture(screenRect); ImageIO.write(capture, “bmp”, new File(args[0])); … Read more

How Do I Take a Screen Shot of a UIView?

December 8, 2022 by Tarik

iOS 7 has a new method that allows you to draw a view hierarchy into the current graphics context. This can be used to get an UIImage very fast. I implemented a category method on UIView to get the view as an UIImage: – (UIImage *)pb_takeSnapshot { UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.bounds.size, NO, [UIScreen mainScreen].scale); [self drawViewHierarchyInRect:self.bounds afterScreenUpdates:YES]; // … Read more

Using ADB to capture the screen [duplicate]

December 2, 2022 by Tarik

To save to a file on Windows, OSX and Linux adb exec-out screencap -p > screen.png To copy to clipboard on Linux use adb exec-out screencap -p | xclip -t image/png

iOS Detection of Screenshot?

November 20, 2022 by Tarik

As of iOS 7 the other answers are no longer true. Apple has made it so touchesCancelled:withEvent: is no longer called when the user takes a screenshot. This would effectively break Snapchat entirely, so a couple betas in a new solution was added. Now, the solution is as simple as using NSNotificationCenter to add an … Read more