Open URL in Chrome & save its source code using Command prompt

Question

I am having a hard time to find how to save the page as html or .txt using command line in Chrome Browser,

This is what I've done so far,

C:\Users\Cipher\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe --new-window
http://google.com

This command will open a new window of Chrome browser and visit google.com but i couldn't be able to figure our how can i save google.com as html or as txt file , is there anyway to do so using command prompt ?

Answer 1

You cannot perform the task you describe manually, but you can perform it using WebDriver automation.

Chrome can be remote controlled using an API called WebDriver (part of Selenium 2 automating suite). WebDrive has bindings for various programming languages, including e.g. JavaScript and Python.

Here is example code for Python (not tested):

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/');
html = driver.page_source
f = open("myhtml", "wt")
f.write(html)
f.close()

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