Taking a screenshot of a website

A common scraping task is to create a screenshot of a website. In Python we can create a thumbnail using selenium and webdriver.

Getting ready

The script for this recipe is 04/08_create_website_screenshot.py. Also, make sure you have selenium in your path and have installed the Python library.

How to do it

Run the script for the recipe. The code in the script is the following:

from core.website_screenshot_generator import  WebsiteScreenshotGenerator
from core.file_blob_writer import FileBlobWriter
from os.path import expanduser

# get the...