Take Screenshots with Puppeteer
Explore how to use Puppeteer's screenshot function to capture visual data from web pages. Understand different image formats, customization options, and scenarios where screenshots enhance data presentation, monitoring, and compliance. Gain practical skills to export visual snapshots alongside structured data for comprehensive web scraping results.
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Overview
Exporting scraped data in screenshot format involves capturing visual representations of the scraped web pages or specific elements within them. Unlike structured data formats like JSON or CSV, screenshots provide a visual snapshot of the web page’s appearance during scraping.
Screenshot formats can include popular image formats such as PNG and JPEG. They offer a way to preserve the visual context of the scraped data, including text, images, styling, and layout.
When exporting scraped data in screenshot format, it’s essential to consider factors such as the resolution, quality, and file size of the captured images to ensure they meet our requirements and constraints.