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

Question

What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python.

Env: Linux

Answer 1

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 = QImage(self.page().viewportSize(), QImage.Format_ARGB32)         painter = QPainter(image)         frame.render(painter)         painter.end()         print 'saving', output_file         image.save(output_file)      def wait_load(self, delay=0):         # process app events until page loaded         while not self._loaded:             self.app.processEvents()             time.sleep(delay)         self._loaded = False      def _loadFinished(self, result):         self._loaded = True  s = Screenshot() s.capture('http://webscraping.com', 'website.png') s.capture('http://webscraping.com/blog', 'blog.png')