How to take a screenshot with Playwright?

When web scraping, we might want to collect page screenshots or peek into what our headless browsers are seeing for debugging. In Playwright a screenshot can be taken using the screenshot() method of page or

from pathlib import Path
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as pw:
    browser = pw.chromium.launch(headless=False)
    
    # To save cookies to a file first extract them from the browser context:
    context = browser.new_context(viewport={"width": 1920, "height": 1080})
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto('http://httpbin.dev/html')
    image_bytes = page.screenshot(
        full_page=True,   # this will try to scroll to capture full page
        path='screenshot.png',  # this will save the screenshot directly to a file
        clip={"x": 0, "y": 0, "width": 100, "height": 100},  # this will clip the screenshot to a specific region
    )
    # or we can save it manually
    Path("screenshot.png").write_bytes(image_bytes)
    
    # we can also take a screenshot of an element
    element = page.locator('p')
    image_bytes = element.screenshot(path='screenshot.png')
 

⚠ Note that when scraping dynamic web pages, screenshots could be captured before the page is fully loaded. For more see How to wait for page to load in Playwright?

Question tagged: Playwright, Python

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