How to take screenshot using Selenium in Python ?

Namachila November 20, 2025

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Selenium offers a lot of features and one of the important and useful feature is of taking a screenshot. In order to take a screenshot of webpage save_screenshot() method is used. save_screenshot method allows user to save the webpage as a png file.

Syntax :

driver.save_screenshot("image.png")

Argument :
filename or the full path you wish to save your screenshot to.

Action performed :
The screenshot will be saved in the same directory as the program, if path is provided screenshot will be saved at that location only.

Code :

Python3

# importing webdriver from selenium
from selenium import webdriver
 
from PIL import Image
 
# Here Chrome  will be used
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
 
# URL of website
url = "https://www.zambiatek.com/"
 
# Opening the website
driver.get(url)
 
driver.save_screenshot("image.png")
 
# Loading the image
image = Image.open("image.png")
 
# Showing the image
image.show()