Examples

Wait before taking screenshot with Ruby and Playwright

Install Playwright and the Playwright client for Ruby

npm install playwright
gem install playwright-ruby-client

Take a screenshot and save to file

Wait for the page to settle before taking the screenshot.

require 'playwright'

Playwright.create(playwright_cli_executable_path: './node_modules/.bin/playwright') do |playwright|
  playwright.chromium.launch do |browser|
    page = browser.new_page
    page.goto('https://www.htmltoimage.com/demo')
    page.wait_for_timeout(3000)
    page.screenshot(path: './wait.png')
  end
end

Find out how to take a full-page screenshot with Ruby and Playwright.

That was 10 lines of code — plus a browser to run in production

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