open a browser page and take screenshot every n hour in python 3
Question: I want to open a web page then take a screenshot every 2 hours via python.
here is my code to open a page at every 2 hour interval

    
    
    import time
    import webbrowser
    total_breaks = 12
    break_count = 0
    
    while(break_count < total_breaks):
        time.sleep(7200)
        webbrowser.open("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2")
        break_count = break_count + 1
    

i followed [Take a screenshot of open website in python
script](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12563350/take-a-screenshot-of-open-
website-in-python-script) but didn't get any success I am using python 3.5 . I
got a module wxpython but it supportts only 2.x . So is there way to take a
screen shot every 2 hours using python 3


Answer: Here's what you have to with Selenium to get started.

  1. Install Selenium using pip by `pip install selenium` in the command prompt.

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  2. Make sure you have the python path in your environment variables.

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  3. Run this script by changing the email and the password below.

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    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
    import time
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.implicitly_wait(30)
    browser.get('https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/&ss=1&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&emr=1&osid=1#identifier')
    email = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Email"]')
    email.clear()
    email.send_keys("email@gmail.com")  # change email
    email.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
    password = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Passwd"]')
    password.clear()
    password.send_keys("password")  # Change Password
    password.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
    time.sleep(10)
    browser.save_screenshot('screen_shot.png')
    browser.close()
    

  4. And finally you can run `schtask` on the saved python file from the command prompt. `schtask` is the `CRON` equivalent on windows.

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    schtasks /Create /SC MINUTE /MO  120 /TN screenshot /TR "PATH_TO_PYTHON_FILE\FILE.py"
    

