Examples

Wait before taking screenshot with JavaScript and Selenium

Install Selenium for JavaScript

npm install selenium-webdriver

selenium-webdriver includes Selenium Manager, which downloads the right chromedriver automatically. The examples use ES modules — run them with node file.mjs, or set "type": "module" in your package.json.

Take a screenshot and save to file

Wait for the page to settle before taking the screenshot.

import { Builder, By, until } from 'selenium-webdriver';
import chrome from 'selenium-webdriver/chrome.js';
import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';

const options = new chrome.Options().addArguments('--headless=new');
const driver = await new Builder().forBrowser('chrome').setChromeOptions(options).build();

await driver.get('https://www.htmltoimage.com/demo');

// Wait for late content — here an element that appears after 2 seconds.
await driver.wait(until.elementIsVisible(driver.findElement(By.css('#delayed-banner'))), 5000);

const image = await driver.takeScreenshot();
writeFileSync('wait.png', image, 'base64');

await driver.quit();

Find out how to take a full-page screenshot with JavaScript and Selenium.

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