--- description: Here is a step-by-step process on how to take a screenshot in selenium. Selenium can automatically take screenshots during execution. title: How to Take Screenshot in Selenium WebDriver image: https://www.guru99.com/images/how-to-take-screenshot-in-selenium-webdriver.png --- [Skip to content](#main) **⚡ Smart Summary** Take Screenshot in Selenium WebDriver explains capturing visual evidence for debugging and visual regression, covering TakesScreenshot, full-page, element captures, and AShot. - 📷 **Why Capture:** Prove failures and document runs. - 🛠️ **TakesScreenshot:** Cast WebDriver, call getScreenshotAs, save file. - 🖼️ **Element Capture:** Selenium 4 supports getScreenshotAs on a WebElement. - 📦 **AShot:** Stitches full pages and compares pixels. - 🤖 **AI Visual Tests:** Applitools detects diffs while ignoring noise. - 📊 **Reports:** Embed screenshots in Allure or ExtentReports. Read More ![How to Take Screenshot in Selenium WebDriver](https://www.guru99.com/images/how-to-take-screenshot-in-selenium-webdriver.png) ## Screenshot in Selenium A **Screenshot in Selenium Webdriver** is used for bug analysis. Selenium webdriver can automatically take screenshots during the execution. But if users need to capture a screenshot on their own, they need to use the TakeScreenshot method which notifies the WebDrive to take the screenshot and store it in Selenium. [![Screenshot In Selenium]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/AdvanceSelenium/071514_0728_PDFEmailsan8.png) ## How to Take Screenshot in Selenium Here is a step-by-step process on how to capture screenshot in selenium WebDriver **Step 1)** Convert web driver object to TakeScreenshot ``` TakesScreenshot scrShot =((TakesScreenshot)webdriver); ``` **Step 2)** Call getScreenshotAs method to create image file ``` File SrcFile=scrShot.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE); ``` **Step 3)** Copy file to Desired Location Example: In this example we will take screen capture of https://demo.guru99.com/V4/ & save it as C:/Test.png **Here is the screenshot code in selenium:** ``` package Guru99TakeScreenshot; import java.io.File; import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils; import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType; import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.testng.annotations.Test; public class Guru99TakeScreenshot { @Test public void testGuru99TakeScreenShot() throws Exception{ WebDriver driver ; System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.">driver","C:\\geckodriver.exe"); driver = new FirefoxDriver(); //goto url driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/V4/"); //Call take screenshot function this.takeSnapShot(driver, "c://test.png") ; } /** * This function will take screenshot * @param webdriver * @param fileWithPath * @throws Exception */ public static void takeSnapShot(WebDriver webdriver,String fileWithPath) throws Exception{ //Convert web driver object to TakeScreenshot TakesScreenshot scrShot =((TakesScreenshot)webdriver); //Call getScreenshotAs method to create image file File SrcFile=scrShot.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE); //Move image file to new destination File DestFile=new File(fileWithPath); //Copy file at destination FileUtils.copyFile(SrcFile, DestFile); } } ``` **NOTE:** Selenium version 3.9.0 and above does not provide Apache Commons IO JAR. You can simply download them [here](https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/download_io.cgi) and call them in your project **Don't Miss:** - [Verify Element Present & waitFor Command in Selenium](https://www.guru99.com/enhancing-selenium-ide-script.html) - [Selenium Framework: Data, Keyword & Hybrid Driven](https://www.guru99.com/creating-keyword-hybrid-frameworks-with-selenium.html) - [FindElement by XPath in Selenium](https://www.guru99.com/find-element-selenium.html) - [How to Handle Proxy Authentication in Selenium Webdriver](https://www.guru99.com/selenium-proxy-authentication.html) ## What is Ashot API? Ashot is a third party utility by Yandex supported by Selenium WebDriver to capture the Screenshots. It takes a screenshot of an individual WebElement as well as a full-page screenshot of a page, which is more significant than screen size. ## How to download and configure Ashot API? There are two methods to configure Ashot API 1. Using Maven 2. Manually without using any tool ### To configure through Maven: - Go to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ru.yandex.qatools.ashot/ashot - Click on the latest version, for now. It is 1.5.4 - Copy the Dependency code and add to your pom.xml file [![Configure Through Maven]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/1/102219_1041_HowtoTakeSc2.png) - Save the file, and Maven will add the jar to your build path - And now you are ready!!! ### To configure manually without any dependency tool 1. Go to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ru.yandex.qatools.ashot/ashot 2. Click on the latest version, for now. It is 1.5.4 3. Click on the jar, download and save it on your machine [![Configure Manually Without Any Dependency Tool]()](https://www.guru99.com/images/1/102219_1041_HowtoTakeSc3.png) 4. Add the jar file in your build path: 5. In Eclipse, right-click on the project -> go to properties -> Build Path -> Libraries -> Add External jars 6. Select the jar file 7. Apply and Close ## Capture Full Page Screenshot with AShot API **Step 1)** Create an Ashot object and call takeScreenshot() method if you just want the screenshot for the screen size page. ``` Screenshot screenshot = new Ashot().takeScreenshot(driver); ``` But if you want a screenshot of the page bigger then the screen size, call the shootingStrategy() method before calling takeScreenshot() method to set up the policy. Then call a method takeScreenshot() passing the webdriver, for example, ``` Screenshot screenshot = new AShot().shootingStrategy(ShootingStrategies.viewportPasting(1000)).takeScreenshot(driver); ``` Here 1000 is scrolled out time in milliseconds, so for taking a screenshot, the program will scroll for each 1000 msec. **Step 2):** Now, get the image from the screenshot and write it to the file. You can provide the file type as jpg, png, etc. ``` ImageIO.write(screenshot.getImage(), "jpg", new File(".\\screenshot\\fullimage.jpg")); ``` Taking a full-page screenshot of a page which is bigger than screen size. **Example:** Here is the example of capturing a full-page screenshot of https://demo.guru99.com/test/guru99home/ and save to file “screenshot.jpg.” Due to using the ShootingStrategy class of Ashot API, we will be able to capture a full image of a page bigger than the screen size. **Here is the screenshot code in selenium program:** ``` package Guru99; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.AShot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.Screenshot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.shooting.ShootingStrategies; public class TestScreenshotUsingAshot { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.">driver", "c:\\chromedriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/test/guru99home/"); driver.manage().window().maximize(); Screenshot = new AShot().shootingStrategy(ShootingStrategies.viewportPasting(1000)).takeScreenshot(driver); ImageIO.write(screenshot.getImage(), "jpg", new File("c:\\ElementScreenshot.jpg")); } } ``` ## Taking a screenshot of a particular element of the page **Example:** Here is the example of capturing element screenshot of Guru 99 logo on https://demo.guru99.com/test/guru99home/ page and save to file “ElementScreenshot.jpg”. **Here is the screenshot code in selenium:** ``` package Guru99; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.AShot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.Screenshot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.shooting.ShootingStrategies; public class TestElementScreenshotUsingAshot { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.">driver", "c:\\chromedriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/test/guru99home/"); driver.manage().window().maximize(); // Find the element to take a screenshot WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath ("//*[@id=\"site-name\"]/a[1]/img")); // Along with driver pass element also in takeScreenshot() method. Screenshot = new AShot().shootingStrategy(ShootingStrategies.viewportPasting(1000)).takeScreenshot(driver,element); ImageIO.write(screenshot.getImage(), "jpg", new File("c:\\ElementScreenshot.jpg")); } } ``` ## Image Comparison using AShot ``` package Guru99; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.AShot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.Screenshot; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.comparison.ImageDiff; import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.comparison.ImageDiffer; public class TestImageComaprison { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.">driver", "C:\\chromedriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/test/guru99home/"); // Find the element and take a screenshot WebElement logoElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"site-name\"]/a[1]/img")); Screenshot logoElementScreenshot = new AShot().takeScreenshot(driver, logoElemnent); // read the image to compare BufferedImage expectedImage = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\Guru99logo.png")); BufferedImage actualImage = logoElementScreenshot.getImage(); // Create ImageDiffer object and call method makeDiff() ImageDiffer imgDiff = new ImageDiffer(); ImageDiff diff = imgDiff.makeDiff(actualImage, expectedImage); if (diff.hasDiff() == true) { System.out.println("Images are same"); } else { System.out.println("Images are different"); } driver.quit(); } } ``` ## FAQs ⚡ Why capture screenshots? They document failures and prove intermittent bugs quickly. 🤖 How does AI improve visual testing? Tools like Applitools compare screenshots intelligently, ignoring dynamic content. 💡 Can AI generate screenshot code? Yes. AI tools produce TakesScreenshot, AShot, and Selenium 4 snippets. 🖼️ Full-page screenshot in Selenium? Use AShot or Selenium 4 with Chrome DevTools Page.captureScreenshot. 🧩 TakesScreenshot vs AShot? TakesScreenshot grabs the viewport. AShot stitches full pages. 🔒 Safe to capture password fields? It captures what renders. Redact sensitive data before sharing. 📂 Where are screenshots stored? Save the file returned by getScreenshotAs yourself. 📚 Does Selenium 4 ease element shots? Yes. Use element.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE) directly. #### Summarize this post with: ChatGPTPerplexityGrokGoogle AI **Stay Updated on AI** **Get Weekly AI Skills, Trends, Actionable Advice.** ##### Sign up for the newsletter Subscribe for Free You have successfully subscribed. 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