mkscreenshot

mkscreenshot takes screenshots of websites from the command line using selenium and PhantomJS.

Installation

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

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:

License

mkscreenshot is licensed under the MIT License and I encourage you to remix it for your own purposes.