HOW TO TAKE SCREENSHOT USING SELENIUM WEBDRIVER?

Here is the very basic program to take screenshot of the current page using Selenium Webdriver script.

Java Source code:

package com.helloselenium.selenium.test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

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;

public class TakeScreenshot{

 public static void main(String[] args) { 

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

  driver.get("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");

  File scrFile;
  scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
  try {
   FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("C:\\Screenshots\\test.png"));
  } catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  
  driver.quit();
 }

}

Detailed explanation for the above program is as follows:

Following code are the required packages for Selenium Webdriver.
All required packages are available in downloaded selenium server and selenium java client jar file.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

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;

Following code is to initialize the Firefox driver.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

Following code is to open the hello selenium blog in browser.

driver.get("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");

You can also use the following code is to open the hello selenium blog in browser.

driver.navigate().to("http://helloselenium.blogspot.com");

Following code is to take the screenshot of the current page. In the below code we are storing the taken screenshot as a file.

scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

Following code is to save the taken screenshot on a location. "C:\\Screenshots\\" is the path of location and "test.png" is the filename to save the taken screenshot as a file. This code needs exception handling which can be handled using throws or try catch.

FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("C:\\Screenshots\\test.png"));

Following code is to quit the Firefox driver instance.

driver.quit();

You can also use the following code is to close the Firefox driver instance.

driver.close();