Take Screenshot of a Web Page

Taking screenshots is a valuable ability in web flows, as users can store and share the current state of a web page. A typical scenario where screenshots are needed is logging. Robomotion provides a dedicated node to take screenshots of whole web pages or specific web elements.

What Take Screenshot of a Web Page can do

• Input Dialog titled Take screenshot of a website, message Please provide the website address to take screenshot of.., default robomotion.io -> msg.url_input.
• Normalise input (Core.Programming.Function, outputs: 2) — cancel short-circuits to Core.Flow.Stop; otherwise trim, prepend https:// if missing, store as msg.url.
• Build paths (Core.Programming.Function) — msg.desktop_path = global.get('$Home$') + '\Desktop', msg.screenshot_path = msg.desktop_path + '\ScreenShot.png', initialise msg.retry_count = 0.
• Launch browser (Core.Browser.Open, chrome, maximised) -> msg.browser_id, open the URL (Core.Browser.OpenLink, timeout 60) -> msg.page_id.
• Take screenshot (Core.Browser.Screenshot) saving to msg.screenshot_path, then Core.Browser.Close on msg.browser_id.
• Timestamp via Robomotion.DateTime.Now (RFC3339, Local) -> msg.now, formatted (Robomotion.DateTime.Format, layout 2006-01-02@03-04) -> msg.stamp.
• Rename (Core.FileSystem.Move, continueOnError: true) to msg.renamed_path = msg.desktop_path + '\ScreenShot-' + msg.stamp + '.png', then Core.Dialog.MessageBox titled Screenshot taken! showing msg.dialog_text.
• Core.Trigger.Catch around the launch/open pair — increments msg.retry_count, sleeps 2s, and Core.Flow.GoTo back to the retry label; after one retry it stops with failed.

Behind the scenes

• Screenshot filename format ScreenShot-yyyy-MM-dd@hh-mm.png — the @ between date and time is deliberate so timestamps sort cleanly without colliding with filesystem separators.
• Core.Browser.Screenshot captures the rendered page via the page_id, so the maximised browser window determines the viewport before the shot is taken.