WebDriver - Unable to take screenshot of the full page with multiple DIVs and FRAMEs

[David]

Hi, 

I am working on automating an web content management system (WCMS), were the webpages are having multiple DIVs and FRAMEs.

When I try to take screenshot it takes only the view port of the whole page it doesn't take the full page. Someone please throw light on how to proceed in

such scenarios.

code snippet:

objWebDriver = new Augmenter().augment(objWebDriver);  

byte[] decodedScreenshot = Base64.decodeBase64(((TakesScreenshot)objWebDriver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.BASE64).getBytes()); 

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File(screenshotpath)); 

fos.write(decodedScreenshot); 

fos.close();

Thanks,

David

[MartinP]

Not sure I can help with taking a scrolled screenshot, but the utility method I have to take a screenshot always additionally takes a dump of the page source, so I can see exactly what's in the page internally as well as what it looks like. I've found it very useful to have the page source along with the screen cap, and the page source would have the entire page, not just the view port.

[Mike Riley]

I use something similar and it always shows the full page:

    private WebDriver getScreenshot()
    {
        return new Augmenter().augment(driver);
    }   // getScreenshot

...

            // Not all Webdriver instances can take a screenshot
            WebDriver augmentedDriver = getScreenshot();
            try
            {
                File file;
                String str = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/"; // Current dir

                file = ((TakesScreenshot) augmentedDriver).getScreenshotAs(
                        OutputType.FILE);
                FileUtils.copyFile(file, new File(filename));
                Reporter.log("<img src=\"file:///" + str + filename +
                             "\" alt=\"\"/><br />");
            }
            catch (Throwable ex1)
            {
                Reporter.log("Unable to capture screentshot to " + filename +
                             "<br/>Got error: " + ex1.getMessage());
            }   // try-catch

[Santosh Hulisandra Srikanta]

Have a basic question why need to use Selenium API for capturing the Screen shot. why cant we some thing in java like this to capture screen shot.

    public void captureScreenShot() throws Exception {

        cnt++;

        driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

        Rectangle screenRect = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize());

        BufferedImage capture = new Robot().createScreenCapture(screenRect);

        if (Os.equals("win")){

            ImageIO.write(capture, "jpg", new

                    File ("C:\\Automation\\Screen_Shots"+File.separator+"screenshot"+cnt+".jpg"));

        }

        else{

            ImageIO.write(capture, "jpg", new

                    File (File.separator+"screenshot"+cnt+".jpg"));

        }

    }

i use this. i doesn't depend on any case.

If interested just give a try

/santosh

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[Mike Riley]

Well the idea is to copy a shot of the entire page and the entire page may not be visible on the screen.

However, what you suggest (with some changes) is useful for capturing a shot of a system dialog, a displayed PDF file, etc.  So it can be useful in those cases.

Mike

[Santosh Hulisandra Srikanta]

Thnx Mike ... I got why Selenium API is required for Screen shot.

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[David]

Hi Mike and Santhosh,

The problem is there are two scroll bars in the browser one in the div  and other one in the iframe.

for page without multiple scroll bars the code works fine.

Please give your valuable suggestions, do i need to resize the divs and iframes before taking screenshot if yes how to proceed please let me know. 

Thanks,

David

[Mike Riley]

I think that to help further we would need to see your code and the HTML for that page.  I have never needed to resize anything to get a screenshot.

Mike

[Parveen Rao]

Hi All,

I am unable to take screenshot of the complete page while running test scripts on chrome browser(able to take only visible pary screenshot)
I am using chrome 2.27 exe and latest chrome browser and late selenium .net dlls and i also try with lower versions of exe but not able to run scripts.
Please share your comments.

Thanks,
Parveen Kumar

[anu jose]

Hi Mike,
 I tried to capture screenshots using the code that you provided, and it executed successfully but did not capture full screenshots ,my code is given below ,please tel me where i am wrong ..

import java.net.URL;

 

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;

import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.Augmenter;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

 

public class Testing {

        private WebDriver getScreenshot() throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException

     {

               WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(

                      new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"),DesiredCapabilities.firefox());

               driver.get("http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/");

      

         return new Augmenter().augment(driver);

     } // getScreenshot

   public void myTest() throws Exception {

    WebDriver augmentedDriver = getScreenshot();

   File screenshot = ((TakesScreenshot)augmentedDriver).

   getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

   FileUtils.copyFile(screenshot, new File("c:\\tmp\\screenshot1.png"));

   }

}

Thanks & Regards,
Anu