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I want to attempt creating a program in python but I don't know how to start. I want the program to do the following :
goes to a specific website URL
Take a 30 seconds recording or video of the entire webpage displayed.
Saves the recording in a video file.
Is it possible to achieve this, and what libraries would I use in python to create a program that does this?
I had an idea that opencv-python could be one of the libraries I could use, is it possible?
Thanks.

Answer 1

For opening a specific URL, you could use the module "webbrowser":
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('http://example.com') # Go to example.com
For recording the page you could install the modules "opencv-python", "numpy" and
"pyautogui":
pip3 install opencv-python numpy pyautogui
And then use them all to get the final code, which could look something like this:
import cv2
import numpy as np
import os
import pyautogui
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('http://example.com') # Go to example.com
output = "video.avi"
img = pyautogui.screenshot()
img = cv2.cvtColor(np.array(img), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
#get info from img
height, width, channels = img.shape
# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'mp4v')
out = cv2.VideoWriter(output, fourcc, 20.0, (width, height))
for i in range(95):
try:
img = pyautogui.screenshot()
image = cv2.cvtColor(np.array(img), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
out.write(image)
StopIteration(0.5)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
break
print("finished")
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
The file should save as "video" and should be runnable. Your screen resolution should be detected automatically during a screenshot. If there are any issues within this code, feel free to tell it to me.