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How to take full-page screenshots with Selenium and Google Chrome in Ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'selenium-webdriver'
wd = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, url: 'http://10.3.1.7:4444/wd/hub', desired_capabilities: :chrome
wd.navigate.to 'https://snipt.net/restrada/python-selenium-workaround-for-full-page-screenshot-using-chromedriver-2x/'
# Get the actual page dimensions using javascript
#
width = wd.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth, document.body.offsetWidth, document.documentElement.clientWidth, document.documentElement.scrollWidth, document.documentElement.offsetWidth);")
height = wd.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight, document.body.offsetHeight, document.documentElement.clientHeight, document.documentElement.scrollHeight, document.documentElement.offsetHeight);")
# Add some pixels on top of the calculated dimensions for good
# measure to make the scroll bars disappear
#
wd.manage.window.resize_to(width+100, height+100)
img = wd.screenshot_as(:png)
File.open('full-page.png', 'w+') do |fh|
fh.write img
end
wd.quit
@spacecowb0y
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Works like a charm! 👍

@rkuzsma
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rkuzsma commented Nov 12, 2015

Neat hack, thanks! Unfortunately, I couldn't get Chrome to resize beyond the screen's dimensions on Mac OS X. An approach like https://github.com/yandex-qatools/ashot/ might work for others with my issue.

@mgrachev
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mgrachev commented Jan 8, 2016

For this you can use the gem gastly.

@monkpit
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monkpit commented May 25, 2016

Nice snippet :) unfortunately this will fail for pages with frames or elements that behave like frames.

@nikolja06
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Thank you very much!!!

@itsNikolay
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Good job! Thanks!

@sanketparlikar
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Good job! Thank you very much!

@Aeliot-Tm
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Aeliot-Tm commented Jul 19, 2017

Unfortunately, I can't create screenshot of really big pages this way.
For example, I have a page with width ~1000px height ~8000px, but I got an exception if I set such browser height.

WebDriverError: unknown error: session deleted because of page crash
from unknown error: cannot determine loading status
from tab crashed
  (Session info: chrome=58.0.3029.81)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.29.461571 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5),platform=Linux 4.4.73-18.17-default x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 1.13 seconds
Build info: version: '3.4.0', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
System info: host: '*****', ip: '*****', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.73-18.17-default', java.version: '1.8.0_121'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, networkConnectionEnabled=false, 
        chrome={chromedriverVersion=2.29.461571 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5), 
        userDataDir=/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.g3Abe6}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, pageLoadStrategy=normal, 
        databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, hasTouchScreen=false, version=58.0.3029.81, platform=LINUX, 
        browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, locationContextEnabled=true, 
        webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, 
        cssSelectorsEnabled=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=}]
Session ID: *******

@ndabien
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ndabien commented Oct 22, 2017

Thanks for sharing, very helpful! There are many user feedback widget available on the market, if you are interested in the widget which does not slow down your website speed then I suggest you BugRem.com, you should definitely check it out.

@jaypinho
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jaypinho commented Nov 10, 2017

Thank you! I have just run into the same problem as Aeliot-Tm: it seems like ChromeDriver fails whenever the page is too large (this is especially noticeable for news site homepages such as washingtonpost.com). Has anyone figured out a way to fix this?

@samnissen
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For anyone using watir, you can tack on my gem watir-screenshot-stitch to take full page screenshots using html2canvas https://github.com/samnissen/watir-screenshot-stitch

@bragboy
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bragboy commented Mar 2, 2018

These lines

img = wd.screenshot_as(:png)

File.open('full-page.png', 'w+') do |fh|
  fh.write img
end

can be replaced with one single line

  wd.save_screenshot('full-page.png')

@sandeepnagra
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It doesn't for me. I still get only visible screen's screenshot.

@farhadbaghirov
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Great Job.it worked for me but after resize() method,you should use maximize() method,because browser's size and location changed

@buurkeey
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It doesn't for me. I still get only visible screen's screenshot.

unfortunately same for me too

@chhunge
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chhunge commented Jul 22, 2019

It doesn't for me. I still get only visible screen's screenshot.

unfortunately same for me too

same =(

@Rayseus
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Rayseus commented Sep 4, 2019

Hi it will change the browser window size every time which is not good for screenshot many times

@rgisiger
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rgisiger commented Jul 6, 2021

The calculation seems to work only in headless mode for me, otherwise it seems like it takes the maximal resolution of the screen displaying the tests.

@arsandov
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arsandov commented Jul 7, 2021

It worked for me on headless mode, but I had to call:

wd.save_screenshot(Rails.root.join("path","filename.png"))

instead of:

img = wd.screenshot_as(:png)

File.open('full-page.png', 'w+') do |fh|
  fh.write img
end

Otherwise, I got encoding issues.

@durcak
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durcak commented Sep 12, 2023

This code worked for chrome:

options = Selenium::WebDriver::Options.chrome(args: ['--headless=new'])
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, options: options)

driver.navigate.to url..

driver.manage.window.maximize
width  = driver.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth, document.body.offsetWidth, document.documentElement.clientWidth, document.documentElement.scrollWidth, document.documentElement.offsetWidth);")
height = driver.execute_script("return Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight, document.body.offsetHeight, document.documentElement.clientHeight, document.documentElement.scrollHeight, document.documentElement.offsetHeight);")
driver.manage.window.resize_to([width, 1500].min, [height, 3000].min) #Restrict to maximum of 1500 x 3000

driver.save_screenshot('full-page.png', full_page: false)

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