It’ll allow the web page to load visibly before executing JavaScript, which makes sense for things like Google Analytics, which don’t need to happen before the page loads. You may also want to look into things like jQuery, prototype, etc and attach to the “ready” handler, which executes JavaScript code after the DOM has been … Read more
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
Simply there is no way to do that with JavaScript because the “default search/homepage” is a user’s preference and you do not have access to that without user’s permission because that would be a security/privacy issue. What Google does at every user visit is show a promo ad with a close icon and a go … Read more