ヘッドレス ブラウザ自動化ライブラリは、スクリーンショットの撮影に適用できる幅広い構成オプションを提供します。このガイドでは、Selenium と Playwright を使用して Python のスクリーンショットを取得する方法について説明します。次に、Web ページのキャプチャをカスタマイズするための一般的なブラウザーのヒントとコツを見ていきます。始めましょう!
このガイドでは、Python のスクリーンショットを撮るために必要なインストールを含む、Selenium と Playwright のコア メソッドについて説明することから始めます。次に、カスタマイズされた Selenium と Playwright のスクリーンショットを撮るための一般的な機能を調べます。
Python で Selenium を使用してスクリーンショットを作成する方法を調べる前に、Selenium をインストールしましょう。以下の pip コマンドを使用して、webdriver-manager と一緒に Selenium をインストールします:
pip install selenium webdriver-manager
webdriver-manager Python ライブラリを使用して、必要なブラウザ ドライバーを自動的にダウンロードします。
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
必要なインストールの準備ができたので、Selenium Python を使用してスクリーンショットを撮りましょう:
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install())) # request target web page driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") # take sceenshot and directly save it driver.save_screenshot('products.png') # image as bytes bytes = driver.get_screenshot_as_png() # image as base64 string base64_string = driver.get_screenshot_as_base64()
Selenium Python のスクリーンショットを撮るための上記の Python スクリプトは非常に簡単です。 save_screenshot メソッドを使用して、ドライバー ビューポート全体のスクリーンショットを撮り、その画像ファイルを products.png ファイルに保存します。ディスクに直接保存する代わりに、プレーン画像データをバイナリまたはbase64として保存してさらに処理する他の方法も利用できます。
Selenium の詳細については、専用ガイドを参照してください。
Playwright API はさまざまなプログラミング言語で利用できます。 Python Playwright を使用してスクリーンショットを撮るので。以下の pip コマンドを使用して Python パッケージをインストールします:
pip install playwright
次に、必要な Playwright Web diver バイナリをインストールします。
playwright install chromium # alternatively install `firefox` or `webkit`
Playwright のスクリーンショットを撮るには、.screenshot メソッドを使用できます:
from pathlib import Path from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context() page = context.new_page() # request target web page page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/products') # take sceenshot and directly save it page.screenshot(path="products.png") # or screenshot as bytes image_bytes = page.screenshot() Path("products.png").write_bytes(image_bytes)
上記では、まず新しい Playwright ヘッドレス ブラウザ インスタンスを起動し、その中で新しいタブを開きます。次に、ページのスクリーンショットを使用して、商品の PNG ファイルに保存します。
Web スクレイピングでの使用方法の詳細については、Playwright の専用ガイドをご覧ください。
Web ページ上の画像は動的に読み込まれます。したがって、Web サイトのスクリーンショットの破損を防ぐには、ロードを正しく待機することが重要です。待機とタイムアウトを定義するためのさまざまな手法を検討してみましょう。
固定タイムアウトは、ヘッドレス ブラウザの待機機能の最も基本的なタイプです。スクリーンショットをキャプチャする前に一定時間待機することで、すべての DOM 要素が正しくロードされることが保証されます。
セレン:
import time # .... driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") # wait for 10 seconds before taking screenshot time.sleep(10) driver.save_screenshot('products.png')
劇作家
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: # .... page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/products') # wait for 10 seconds before taking screenshot page.wait_for_timeout(10000) page.screenshot(path="products.png")
上記では、Playwright の wait_for_timeout メソッドを使用して、Web ページのスクリーンショットに進む前に固定の待機条件を定義しています。 Selenium は固定タイムアウト用の組み込みメソッドを提供していないので、Python の組み込み時間モジュールを使用します。
動的待機条件には、続行する前に特定の要素のセレクターがページ上に表示されるまで待機するが含まれます。定義されたタイムアウト内にセレクターが見つかった場合、待機プロセスは終了します。
セレン
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By # .... driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") _timeout = 10 # set the maximum timeout to 10 seconds wait = WebDriverWait(driver, _timeout) wait.until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located( (By.XPATH, "//div[@class='products']") # wait for XPath selector # (By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.products") # wait for CSS selector ) ) driver.save_screenshot("products.png")
劇作家
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: # .... page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/products') # wait for XPath or CSS selector page.wait_for_selector("div.products", timeout=10000) page.wait_for_selector("//div[@class='products']", timeout=10000) page.screenshot(path="products.png")
上記では、Selenium の Expected_conditions と Playwright の wait_for_selector メソッドを使用して、Python スクリーンショットを撮る前にセレクターを待機する動的条件を利用しています。
利用可能な最後の待機条件はロード状態です。 ブラウザ ページが特定の状態に達するまで待機します :
ネットワークアイドル状態を待機することは、レンダリングする複数の画像を含む Web ページのスナップショットをキャプチャする場合に特に役立ちます。これらのページは帯域幅を大量に消費するため、特定のセレクターを待つよりも、すべてのネットワーク呼び出しが終了するのを待つほうが簡単です。
ここでは、waitForLoadState メソッドを利用して、Playwright のスクリーンショットを撮る前に待機する方法を示します:
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: # .... page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/products') # wait for load state page.wait_for_load_state("domcontentloaded") # DOM tree to load page.wait_for_load_state("networkidle") # network to be idle page.screenshot(path="products.png")
Selenium にはドライバーのロード状態をインターセプトするためのメソッドがありませんが、カスタム JavaScript の実行を使用して実装できることに注意してください。
エミュレーションにより、ヘッドレス ブラウザ構成をカスタマイズして、一般的な Web ブラウザの種類とユーザー設定をシミュレートできます。これらの設定は、それに応じて撮影された Web ページのスクリーンショットに 反映されます。
For instance, by emulating a specific phone browser, the website screenshot taken appears as if it was captured by an actual phone.
Viewport settings represent the resolution of the browser device through width and height dimensions. Here's how to change Python screenshot viewport.
Selenium
# .... # set the viewport dimensions (width x height) driver.set_window_size(1920, 1080) driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") driver.save_screenshot("products.png")
Playwright:
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080}, # set viewport dimensions device_scale_factor=2, # increase the pixel ratio ) page = context.new_page() page.goto("https://web-scraping.dev/products") page.screenshot(path="products.png")
Here, we use Selenium's set_window_size method to set the browser viewport. As for Playwright, we define a browser context to set the viewport in addition to increasing the pixel ratio rate through the the device_scale_factor property for higher quality.
Playwrights provides a wide range of device presets to emulate multiple browsers and operating systems, enabling further Playwright screenshot customization:
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: iphone_14 = p.devices['iPhone 14 Pro Max'] browser = p.webkit.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( **iphone_14, ) # open a browser tab with iPhone 14 Pro Max's device profile page = context.new_page() # ....
The above Python script selects a device profile to automatically define its settings, including UserAgent, screen viewport, scale factor, and browser type. For the full list of available device profiles, refer to the official device registry.
Taking a screenshot on websites with localization features can make the images look different based on the locale language and timezone settings used. Hence, corretly setting these values ensures the correct behavior.
Selenium
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options driver_manager = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()) options = Options() # set locale options.add_argument("--lang=fr-FR") driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driver_manager, options=options) # set timezone using devtools protocol timezone = {'timezoneId': 'Europe/Paris'} driver.execute_cdp_cmd('Emulation.setTimezoneOverride', timezone) driver.get("https://webbrowsertools.com/timezone/") # ....
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( locale='fr-FR', timezone_id='Europe/Paris', ) page = context.new_page() page.goto("https://webbrowsertools.com/timezone/") # ....
In this Python code, we set the browser's localization preferences through the locale and timezone settings. However, other factors can affect the localization profile used. For the full details, refer to our dedicated guide on web scraping localization.
Taking Python screenshots on websites can often be affected by automatic browser location identification. Here's how we can change it through longitude and latitude values.
Selenium
# .... driver_manager = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()) driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driver_manager) geolocation = dict( { "latitude": 37.17634, "longitude": -3.58821, "accuracy": 100 } ) # set geolocation using devtools protocol driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Emulation.setGeolocationOverride", geolocation)
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( geolocation={"longitude": 37.17634, "latitude": -3.58821}, permissions=["geolocation"] ) page = context.new_page()
Taking webpage screenshots in the dark mode is quite popular. To approach it, we can change the browser's default color theme preference.
Selenium
# .... options = Options() options.add_argument('--force-dark-mode') driver_manager = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()) driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driver_manager, options=options) driver.get("https://reddit.com/") # will open in dark mode
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( color_scheme='dark' ) page = context.new_page() page.goto("https://reddit.com/") # will open in dark mode
The above code sets the default browser theme to dark mode, enabling dark-mode web screenshots accordingly. However, it has no effect on websites without native theme-modification support.
To force dark-mode screenshots across all websites, we can use Chrome flags. To do this, start by retrieving the required argument using the below steps:
After retrieving the flag argument, add it to the browser context to force dark website screenshots in Python.
Selenium
# .... driver_manager = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()) options = Options() options.add_argument('--enable-features=WebContentsForceDark:inversion_method/cielab_based') driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driver_manager, options=options) driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/products") driver.save_screenshot('dark_screenshot.png')
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch( headless=False, args=[ '--enable-features=WebContentsForceDark:inversion_method/cielab_based' ] ) context = browser.new_context() page = context.new_page() page.goto("https://web-scraping.dev/products") page.screenshot(path="dark_screenshot.png")
Here's what the retrieved dark-mode Python screenshot looks like:
Lastly, let's explore using Python to screenshot webpages through area selection. It enables targeting specific areas of the page.
Taking full-page screenshots is an extremely popular use case, allowing snapshots to be captured at the whole page's vertical height.
Full-page screenshots are often _ misunderstood _. Hence, it's important to differentiate between two distinct concepts:
A headless browser can scroll down, but its screenshot height hasn't been updated for the new height , or vice versa. Hence, the retrieved web snapshot doesn't look as expected.
Here's how to take scrolling screenshots with Selenium and Playwright.
Selenium
# .... def scroll(driver): _prev_height = -1 _max_scrolls = 100 _scroll_count = 0 while _scroll_count < _max_scrolls: # execute JavaScript to scroll to the bottom of the page driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);") # wait for new content to load (change this value as needed) time.sleep(1) # check whether the scroll height changed - means more pages are there new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight") if new_height == _prev_height: break _prev_height = new_height _scroll_count += 1 driver_manager = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()) options = Options() options.add_argument("--headless") # ⚠️ headless mode is required driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driver_manager, options=options) # request the target page and scroll down driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/testimonials") scroll(driver) # retrieve the new page height and update the viewport new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight") driver.set_window_size(1920, new_height) # screenshot the main page content (body) driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "body").screenshot("full-page-screenshot.png")
Playwright
# .... def scroll(page): _prev_height = -1 _max_scrolls = 100 _scroll_count = 0 while _scroll_count < _max_scrolls: # execute JavaScript to scroll to the bottom of the page page.evaluate("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight)") # wait for new content to load page.wait_for_timeout(1000) # check whether the scroll height changed - means more pages are there new_height = page.evaluate("document.body.scrollHeight") if new_height == _prev_height: break _prev_height = new_height _scroll_count += 1 with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080} ) page = context.new_page() # request the target page and scroll down page.goto("https://web-scraping.dev/testimonials") scroll(page) # automatically capture the full page page.screenshot(path="full-page-screenshot.png", full_page=True)
Since Selenium doesn't provide automatic full page screenshot capturing capabilities, we utilize additional steps:
So far, we have been taking web page screenshots against the entire screen viewport. However, headless browsers allow targeting a specific area by screenshotting elements using their equivalent selectors :
Selenium
# .... driver.set_window_size(1920, 1080) driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/product/3") # wait for the target element to be visible wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) wait.until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located( (By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.row.product-data") )) element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.row.product-data') # take web page screenshot of the specific element element.screenshot('product-data.png')
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context( viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080} ) page = context.new_page() page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/product/3') # wait for the target element to be visible page.wait_for_selector('div.row.product-data') # take web page screenshot of the specific element page.locator('div.row.product-data').screenshot(path="product-data.png")
In the above code, we start by waiting for the desired element to appear in the HTML. Then, we select it and specifically capture it. Here's what's the retrieved Python screenshot looks like:
Furthermore, we can customize the webpage Python screenshots using coordinate values. In other words, it crops the web page into an image using four attributes :
Here's how to take clipped Playwright and Selenium screenshots:
Selenium
from PIL import Image # pip install pillow from io import BytesIO # .... driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/product/3") wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) wait.until(expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located( (By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.row.product-data") )) element = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'div.row.product-data') # automatically retrieve the coordinate values of selected selector location = element.location size = element.size coordinates = { "x": location['x'], "y": location['y'], "width": size['width'], "height": size['height'] } print(coordinates) {'x': 320.5, 'y': 215.59375, 'width': 1262, 'height': 501.828125} # capture full driver screenshot screenshot_bytes = driver.get_screenshot_as_png() # clip the screenshot and save it img = Image.open(BytesIO(screenshot_bytes)) clip_box = (coordinates['x'], coordinates['y'], coordinates['x'] + coordinates['width'], coordinates['y'] + coordinates['height']) cropped_img = img.crop(clip_box) cropped_img.save('clipped-screenshot.png')
Playwright
# .... with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context() page = context.new_page() page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/product/3') page.wait_for_selector('div.row.product-data') element = page.query_selector("div.row.product-data") # automatically retrieve the coordinate values of selected selector coordinates = element.bounding_box() print(coordinates) {'x': 320.5, 'y': 215.59375, 'width': 1262, 'height': 501.828125} # capture the screenshot with clipping page.screenshot(path="clipped-screenshot.png", clip=coordinates)
We use Playwright's built-in clip method to automatically crop the captured screenshot. As for Selenium, we use Pillow to manually clip the full web page snapshot.
Websites' pop-up banners prevent taking clear screenshots. One of these is the famous " Accept Cookies" banner on web-scraping.dev as an example:
The above banner is displayed through cookies. If we click "accept", a cookie value will be saved on the browser to save our reference and prevent displaying the banner again.
If we observe observe browser developer tools
, we'll find the cookiesAccepted cookie set to true. So, to block cookie banners while taking Python screenshots, we'll set this cookie before navigating to the target web page.
Selenium
# .... driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev") # add the cookie responsible for blocking screenshot banners driver.add_cookie({'name': 'cookiesAccepted', 'value': 'true', 'domain': 'web-scraping.dev'}) driver.get("https://web-scraping.dev/login?cookies=") driver.save_screenshot('blocked-banner-screenshot.png'
Playwright
with sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=False) context = browser.new_context() # add the cookie responsible for blocking screenshot banners context.add_cookies( [{'name': 'cookiesAccepted', 'value': 'true', 'domain': 'web-scraping.dev', 'path': '/'}] ) page = context.new_page() page.goto('https://web-scraping.dev/login?cookies=') page.screenshot(path='blocked-banner-screenshot.png')
For further details on using cookies, refer to our dedicated guide.
So far, we have explored taking website screenshots using a basic headless browser configuration. However, modern websites prevent screenshot automation using anti-bot measures. Moreover, maintaining headless web browsers can be complex and time-consuming.
ScrapFly is a screenshot API that enables taking web page captures at scale by providing:
ScrapFly abstracts away all the required engineering efforts!
Here's how to take Python screenshots using ScrapFly's screenshot API. It's as simple as sending an API request:
from pathlib import Path import urllib.parse import requests base_url = 'https://api.scrapfly.io/screenshot?' params = { 'key': 'Your ScrapFly API key', 'url': 'https://web-scraping.dev/products', # web page URL to screenshot 'format': 'png', # screenshot format (file extension) 'capture': 'fullpage', # area to capture (specific element, fullpage, viewport) 'resolution': '1920x1080', # screen resolution 'country': 'us', # proxy country 'rendering_wait': 5000, # time to wait in milliseconds before capturing 'wait_for_selector': 'div.products-wrap', # selector to wait on the web page 'options': [ 'dark_mode', # use the dark mode 'block_banners', # block pop up banners 'print_media_format' # emulate media printing format ], 'auto_scroll': True # automatically scroll down the page } # Convert the list of options to a comma-separated string params['options'] = ','.join(params['options']) query_string = urllib.parse.urlencode(params) full_url = base_url + query_string response = requests.get(full_url) image_bytes = response.content # save to disk Path("screenshot.png").write_bytes(image_bytes)
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To wrap up this guide on taking website screenshots with Python Selenium and Playwright, let's have a look at some frequqntly asked questions.
Yes, screenshot APIs are great alternatives. They manage headless browsers under the hood, enabling website snapshots through simple HTTP requests. For further details, refer to our guide on the best screenshot API.
Puppeteer is a popular headless browser that allows web page captures using the page.screenshot method. For more, refer to our guide on taking screenshots with Puppeteer.
ページ全体のスクリーンショットを撮るには、必要に応じて Selenium または Playwright を使用してページを下にスクロールします。次に、Playwright の fullpage メソッド: スクリーンショット(path, full_page=True) を使用して、フル ビューポートでスクリーンショットを自動的にキャプチャします。
Selenium に関しては、スクロール後にブラウザのビューポートの高さを手動で更新して、垂直方向の高さ全体をカバーします。
このガイドでは、Python で Playwright と Selenium のスクリーンショットを撮る方法を説明しました。まず、インストールと基本的な使用方法について説明します。
高度な Selenium と Playwright 機能を使用してカスタマイズされたスクリーンショットをキャプチャする方法について、段階的なガイドを説明しました。
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