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Introduction

Taking screenshots of websites is a common task in scraping and testing. Whether you need to capture the entire page, content within the viewport, or a particular element identified by CSS or XPath selectors, you can do it using ScrapexLabs API.

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Default screenshot

To capture the content visible within the viewport of the browser window set return_screenshot=true This will make a screenshot similar to the one you would make yourself if you had the website open on your computer.
Learn more about how to control browser window height and width

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Full-page screenshot

To capture all the content of the webpage:
 
"return_screenshot": true,
"screenshot_full_page": true
This will make the browser adjust it’s size to the HTML body element height and then take a screenshot.

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Selector screenshot

To capture a screenshot of the particular HTML element:
 
"return_screenshot": true,
"screenshot_selector": "css or xpath selector"
If your selector starts with a forward slash / - it will be treated as XPath selector. Otherwise—as CSS selector. 
"return_screenshot": true,
"screenshot_selector": "#desktop-6"