Python Website Screenshots: Selenium, Pyppeteer, and API Approaches

I tried to be short, but thoughts expanded a bit, sorry about that. You can take a screenshot of any URL in Python using Selenium, Pyppeteer, Playwright, or a screenshot API. Selenium uses the WebDriver protocol and supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Pyppeteer is a Python port of Pyppeteer using Chrome's DevTools Protocol. Screenshot APIs handle everything server-side, so you get an image back from a single HTTP request with no browser to manage. Here's each method with full working code, followed by a comparison to help you pick the right one. Method 1: Selenium Selenium is the oldest and most established browser automation tool for Python. If you've done any web testing, you've probably used it already. Install pip install selenium You also need a browser driver. For Chrome, the easiest path is webdriver-manager: pip install webdriver-manager Basic Screenshot from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options