mkscreenshot takes screenshots of websites from the command line using selenium and PhantomJS.
First, you need to install PhantomJS and ensure it's on your path.
You can do this by manually downloading PhantomJS from their website (all platforms); installing PhantomJS with Homebrew: brew cask install phantomjs (OS X); installing PhantomJS with npm: npm install -g phantomjs (all platforms); or using your system's package manager.
That's the hard part! Once that's done, installing mkscreenshot is as simple as:
pip3 install mkscreenshot
Please note: mkscreenshot is only tested with Python 3.5 – you should be using Python 3!
Usage: mkscreenshot [OPTIONS] URL
Options:
--output TEXT Filename for the screenshot (defaults to the domain name)
--sleep INTEGER Wait before taking the screenshot to allow asynchronous
scripts to load
--width INTEGER Specify the width of the browser window
--help Show this message and exit.
For example, to take a screenshot of the Hacker News homepage:
> mkscreenshot https://news.ycombinator.com
And you'll get a screenshot like this:
mkscreenshot is licensed under the MIT License and I encourage you to remix it for your own purposes.
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We found that mkscreenshot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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