How to take full page screen shot from an already opened 'firefox' web browser, using C#

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Hi,
I need to take FULL WEB PAGE as an IMAGE from Firefox browser. Is there any other workaround, please advise.

Thanks.

What I have tried:

I have tried 'SHDocVw.dll' samples, but it works with IE only.
Now i am just now started trying with DdeClient. Till, i can get the URL only.

Posted 8-Apr-16 0:03am

NPSSR

Updated 8-Apr-16 5:13am

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Solution 1

See Search - CodeProject[^].

Posted 8-Apr-16 3:15am

Richard MacCutchan

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NPSSR 8-Apr-16 10:21am

Hi Richard, Thanks. Still, I couldn't find any samples related to 'firefox' browser. Actually, I need to capture the web page with the search *result that already displayed in 'firefox' browser. Please help.

Richard MacCutchan 8-Apr-16 10:26am

Thos samples are used to capture an image of your screen. If you want a complete webpage then you need to write your own "screen scraper", and Google will find you some sample code.

Solution 2

Generically, you need to open the browser window to the page, take a screenshot, send messages to the browser window to scroll it down, take another screenshot, scroll, ... then stitch the images together. I know of no automation interface for FireFox to make this easier and I don't have any examples.

Posted 8-Apr-16 4:27am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-08T05:13:00

If you're doing this through code, you'll want to use the Selenium WebDriver[^]:

C#

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);
ITakesScreenshot screenshotDriver = driver as ITakesScreenshot;
Screenshot screenshot = screenshotDriver.GetScreenshot();
screenshot.SaveAsFile(@"c:\test.png", ImageFormat.Png);

Selenium WebDriver C# Full Website Screenshots With ChromeDriver and FirefoxDriver - Stack Overflow[^]
WebDriver - Table of Content[^]

That does mean you'll need to take the screenshot from a new instance of Firefox, as it's not feasible to attach to an existing instance[^].

If you want to do it manually, there's a "Take a full page screenshot" button in the developer tools.