Java selenium project that utilizes chrome driver with the only purpose of taking screenshots from websites. It can be easily integrated for different automation or used as scaffolding to make more "clever" bots that emulate user interactions with websites.
- Install Docker
- Pull the Docker image by running
docker pull zzzteph/screenshot - Run
docker run -v /tmp:/tmp zzzteph/screenshot -u "http://google.com" -s "/tmp/google.png"
- Install JDK and additional software
sudo apt-get install -y curl xvfb libxi6 libgconf-2-4 default-jdk maven```
- Setup latest Google Chrome.
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
- Download and install ChromeDriver.
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.41/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver
- Preapare package
git clone https://github.com/zzzteph/screenshot
cd screenshot
mvn package
You will be able to find JAR (screenshot-1.0.jar) file in target folder.
cd target
java -jar screenshot-1.0.jar
java -jar screenshot-1.0.jar -u "https://google.com" -s google.com.png
The application will visit https://google.com, wait 5 seconds for all Javascript to load and execute, and then take a screenshot and store it at google.com.png. You will be able to find google.com.png image in the folder. You can specify the path where you want to store the image.
