Selenium is a web automation framework that can be used for automated testing, web scraping and anything you can do with a web browser. We can use Selenium to take automated screenshots of a webpage.

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Take screenshot Selenium Selenium will start the given web browser and open the page. It will then take a screenshot and save it to the local hard disk.

take screenshot using python code

We start a web driver (Chromium) and open the webpage python.org. Then we call the method:

driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png")

The screenshot will be saved in the same directory as the program: the program path.
The full code:

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument("--test-type")
options.binary_location = "/usr/bin/chromium"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://python.org')
driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png")
driver.close()

Remember to call driver.close() otherwise the browser stays open after the program finishes.