How to Take Full Page Screenshot in Selenium Using Ashot API (Java)

By Bhau Automation Lab • Selenium Full Page Screenshot Tutorial

🎯 What You Will Learn

• How to take full page screenshot in Selenium
• What is Ashot API?
• How to configure Ashot in Maven project
• Difference between normal screenshot and full page screenshot
• Practical Java example using Ashot

💡 Default Selenium screenshot captures only visible area. Ashot API captures entire scrollable webpage.

📌 Why We Need Ashot API?

Selenium WebDriver default TakesScreenshot interface captures only the visible portion of the screen. To capture the complete scrollable webpage, we use Ashot API.

📌 Add Ashot Dependency (Maven)

    ru.yandex.qatools.ashot
    ashot
    1.5.4

💻 Full Page Screenshot Using Ashot (Java Code)

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.AShot;
import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.Screenshot;
import ru.yandex.qatools.ashot.shooting.ShootingStrategies;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FullPageScreenshot {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://example.com");

        Screenshot screenshot = new AShot()
                .shootingStrategy(ShootingStrategies.viewportPasting(1000))
                .takeScreenshot(driver);

        ImageIO.write(screenshot.getImage(), "PNG", 
                new File("./Screenshots/FullPage.png"));

        System.out.println("Full Page Screenshot Captured Successfully!");

        driver.quit();
    }
}

📍 How Ashot Works

• Scrolls page automatically
• Captures multiple screenshots
• Merges them into single full-page image

⚡ Real-Time Framework Use Case

• UI validation testing
• Visual regression testing
• Failure screenshot reporting
• Extent Report integration

❓ Interview Questions

🎥 Watch Complete Video Tutorial

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🎓 Key Takeaways

• Selenium default screenshot captures only visible area
• Ashot API captures entire scrollable page
• viewportPasting() method enables full page screenshot
• Useful in automation frameworks and reporting
• Important Selenium 4 interview topic

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