Question

I’m running Python 3.1 and you would call me an advanced novice 🙂

My question is simple: I’m trying to make a simple program which asks the users for a URL (or multiple URLs) and then goes to the website and takes a screenshot (of the whole page, not just what can be seen in the browser without scrolling all the way down).

It’s simpler then it sounds, I want to use an existing platform on the web, similar to this:

import subprocess
MYFILENAME = "google_screen"
MYURL = "www.google.com"
subprocess.Popen(['wget', '-O', MYFILENAME+'.png', 'http://images.websnapr.com/?url='+MYURL+'&size=s&nocache=82']).wait()

Although this website does not work :(, I’m wondering is it possible to do it with this website and if so, how? If it is not possible, are there any alternatives?

Answer 1

There is a package called webkit2png that you can use for this, its located: here

More information on this blog post

Example from blog post(copied to SO for preservation, read the blog post to understand it if you have issues):

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import signal

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt 4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebPage

def onLoadFinished(result):
    if not result:
        print "Request failed"
        sys.exit(1)

    # Set the size of the (virtual) browser window
    webpage.setViewportSize(webpage.mainFrame().contentsSize())

    # Paint this frame into an image
    image = QImage(webpage.viewportSize(), QImage.Format_ARGB32)
    painter = QPainter(image)
    webpage.mainFrame().render(painter)
    painter.end()
    image.save("output2.png")
    sys.exit(0)


app = QApplication(sys.argv)
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)

webpage = QWebPage()
webpage.connect(webpage, SIGNAL("loadFinished(bool)"), onLoadFinished)
webpage.mainFrame().load(QUrl("http://www.google.com"))

sys.exit(app.exec_())

Edit: Link to the pyqt4 download page