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I want to save a web page as a picture with python but I don't know how to do.

Is there any package (or open-source software) could help me ?

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You could use selenium webdriver to get a screenshot in different browsers e.g., in Chrome:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome

url, filename = 'http://www.stackoverflow.com', '/tmp/stackoverflow.com.png'

browser = Chrome()
try:
    browser.get(url)
    browser.get_screenshot_as_file(filename)
finally:
    browser.quit()

xvfb allows to run selenium headlessly (without GUI) if you want to take many screenshots in parallel. See also Is it possible to run selenium (Firefox) web driver without a GUI?.

Note: there is a bug chrome driver 2 makes screenshot just of visible part of page. See workarounds there.

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You could use (or inspect the code from) pywebshot, an open source tool that seems to do exactly what you need.

$ ./pywebshot.py -t 500x250 http://stackoverflow.com http://meta.stackoverflow.com
Loading http://stackoverflow.com... saved as stackoverflow.com.png
Loading http://meta.stackoverflow.com... saved as meta.stackoverflow.com.png
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