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kaleaht
kaleaht

Reputation: 131

I'm trying to take a screenshot of an element with selenium-webdriver, but UnsupportedOperationError was thrown?

My current code looks like this.

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),
until = webdriver.until,
By = webdriver.By,
fs = require('fs');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
  .forBrowser('chrome')
  .build();

driver.get('https://www.google.com/');

driver.findElement(By.css('#hplogo')).then((el) => {
  el.takeScreenshot().then((data) => {
    var base64Data = data.replace(/^data:image\/png;base64,/, "");
    fs.writeFile(__dirname + "/out.png", base64Data, 'base64', (err) => {
        if(err) console.log(err);
    });
  });
});

When I run it I get error message:

/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:654
    throw error;
    ^

UnsupportedOperationError: unknown command: session/797c146086bc89ad245f76ce99302a48/element/0.9715665113180876-1/screenshot
    at WebDriverError (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:26:26)
    at UnsupportedOperationError (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:435:26)
    at Object.checkLegacyResponse (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/error.js:578:13)
    at /home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:360:15
    at Promise.invokeCallback_ (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:1329:14)
    at TaskQueue.execute_ (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2790:14)
    at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (/home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2773:21)
    at /home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2652:27
    at /home/project/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:639:7
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:406:9)

I'm using selenium-webdriver version 2.52.0. Does anybody know what is going wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1446

Answers (1)

Andrew Regan
Andrew Regan

Reputation: 5113

To confirm what @Andersson said, with the exception of Microsoft Edge (reference), no WebDriver actually implements element-based screenshots. You have to generate a full-window screenshot and crop it.

See my earlier answer on this topic (and others) for more background and workarounds.

Upvotes: 6

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