Examples

Wait before taking screenshot with Ruby and Selenium

Install Selenium for Ruby

gem install selenium-webdriver

selenium-webdriver 4.11+ includes Selenium Manager, which downloads the right chromedriver automatically — the separate webdrivers gem is no longer needed.

Take a screenshot and save to file

Wait for the page to settle before taking the screenshot.

require 'selenium-webdriver'

options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
options.add_argument('--headless=new')

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, options: options)

driver.get('https://www.htmltoimage.com/demo')
sleep 3
driver.save_screenshot('./wait.png')

driver.quit

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

That was 12 lines of code — plus a browser to run in production

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