How to take screen shot of current webpage using Javascript/JQuery?

Asked 14/8, 2013 at 12:4 Answered 7/2, 2022 at 20:38

I was trying to take screen shot of a web page using JavaScript/JQuery. Could you please explain me the code steps I need to follow?

Cuisse answered 14/8, 2013 at 12:4 Comment(1)

Possible duplicate of Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take screenshots – Searching 10/9, 2016 at 15:41

The html2canvas2 JavaScript utility is suitable to take a screenshot of a webpage. You have to use three JavaScript libraries:

 1.jquery-1.10.2.min.js
 2.html2canvas.js
 3.jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js

Then call the function capture(), which will give you an HTML5 canvas-based screenshot in new window. It also generates a base64data value of image. It only works in browsers that support HTML5 canvas.

    <script type="text/javascript">
    function capture() {
            html2canvas($('body'),{
                onrendered: function (canvas) {                     
                            var imgString = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
                            window.open(imgString);                  
            }
        });
   </script>

Plaque answered 25/11, 2013 at 10:38 Comment(4)

Hi.. Can you please share the right source repo too if possible?.. I can find few while googling. – Schatz 10/1, 2014 at 8:43

I've added a link to the library in this answer. – Medicine 11/6, 2014 at 4:33

Important note: "The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such may not be 100% accurate to the real representation as it does not make an actual screenshot, but builds the screenshot based on the information available on the page." – Rabblement 12/8, 2015 at 2:16

where is this image saved. how can i view it? – Rammer 25/1, 2017 at 5:39

Here, Take screenshot of webpage using html2canvas.

Example

<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/dist/html2canvas.js"></script>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h1>Take screenshot of webpage with html2canvas</h1>
  <div class="container" id='container'>
      <h1>Devnote is a tutorial.</h1>
  </div>
  <input type='button' id='but_screenshot' value='Take screenshot' onclick='screenshot();'><br/>

  <!-- Script -->
  <script type='text/javascript'>
    function screenshot() {
        html2canvas(document.body).then(function(canvas) {
            document.body.appendChild(canvas);
        });
    }
  </script>

 </body>
</html>

Output:

Valenciavalenciennes answered 29/7, 2021 at 4:54 Comment(0)

If you want real screenshot and not to convert html to image then you can try my new JS library: screenshot.js.

It's enable to take real screenshot.

You load the script:

<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amiad/screenshot.js/master/screenshot.js"></script>

and take screenshot:

new Screenshot({success: img => {
        // callback function
        myimage = img;
    }});

You can read more options in project page.

Firstborn answered 7/2, 2022 at 20:38 Comment(0)

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