[FIXED] How to automate regular screenshots on Chrome with Selenium

Issue

I have a list of URLs that I screenshot and save periodically. It's pretty manual and time consuming and I researched how I could automate this to save time.

I came across a python solution using "Selenium" and I have a few questions.

Is there a script available that I could maybe amend (I'm very new to Python) That would enable me to:

• Screenshot and store the image of a list of URLs

• Automate this process so it occurs in periodically

Thanks in advance!

This is an example of code that I have found and amended, I just wonder what more I can do:

from selenium import webdriver 
from time import sleep 
driver = webdriver.Chrome() 
driver.get('URL') 
sleep(1) 
driver.get_screenshot_as_file("FW.png") 
driver.quit() 
print("end...") 

I believe I may have errors, but this is my start. (Super new to coding so apologies!)

Solution

The following is an example of how you could screenshot a number of pages, every x seconds/minutes/hours/ etc using Selenium (this example is taking a screenshot every 10 seconds):

import schedule
import time as t
from datetime import datetime
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
chrome_options.add_argument('disable-notifications')

webdriver_service = Service("chromedriver/chromedriver") ## path to where you saved chromedriver binary

urls_list = ['https://yahoo.com/', 'https://eff.org/', 'https://invidious.io/']

def get_secondly_screenshots(list_of_urls):
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=webdriver_service, options=chrome_options)
    for url in list_of_urls:
        browser.get(url)
        page = WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.TAG_NAME, "body")))
        t.sleep(5)
        now = datetime.now()
        date_time = now.strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S")
        sh_url = url.split('://')[1].split('.')[0]
        print(sh_url, date_time)
        page.screenshot(f'{sh_url}_{date_time}.png')
        print('screenshotted ', url)
        t.sleep(2)
    browser.quit()

schedule.every(10).seconds.do(get_secondly_screenshots, list_of_urls = urls_list)
while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    t.sleep(1)

This setup is for linux/chromedriver, you will need to set it up on your own system (there are many good tutorials for this, and documentation is also helpful).

Documentation for schedule: https://schedule.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ And also documentation for Selenium: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

Answered By - platipus_on_fire