How to take ScreenShot & save it with different filenames by using Selenium & Java? [closed]

Question

I have created screenShot() method to take the screenshot of the web page. When I used this method in my code first time it will capture the screen and it will save the image with image1 name. When I used the same method screenShot() to capture screens for other pages with the use of this.screenShot(); this will again capture the current web page screen but it stores With the same name image1 in the same folder (which overrides to previously captured screen image1).

Now, I have to take screenshots for the number of web pages & want to store it into the same folder with different names like image1, image2, image3...etc. by using the same method screenShot().

public void screenShot() throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
    File scr = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
    File dest = new File("filPath/image1.png");
    FileUtils.copyFile(scr, dest);
}

Any workaround to achieve this scenario?

Answer 1

Two options:

1. Generate a unique filename for each save, by appending a timestamp or a GUID.
   Also, see this question.

   public void screenShot() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
       File scr = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
       String filename =  new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddhhmmss'.txt'").format(new Date());
       File dest = new File("filePath/" + filename);
       FileUtils.copyFile(scr, dest);
   }
   

2. Give your screenShot() function a filename parameter and pass a unique filename in each call, something like this:

   public void screenShot(string filename) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
       File scr = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
       File dest = new File("filePath/" + filename);
       FileUtils.copyFile(scr, dest);
   }
   

Answer 2

Yes, I have tried some different logic and it is working now.

public void screenShot() throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
    File scr=((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

    File dest= new File("filPath/screenshot_"+timestamp()+".png");
    FileUtils.copyFile(scr, dest);
}

public string timestamp() {
    return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss").format(new Date());
}