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Python 3 Selenium Script to Take Screenshot of Google Maps Using Address and Save it as PNG Image
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-selenium-script-to-take-screenshot-of-google-maps-using-address-and-save-it-as-png-image/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will actually take the
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screenshot of a Google map and you will
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actually enter the location which
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location you want to take the screenshot
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and uh it it will use selenium library
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which is automation library inside the
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browser it will open the browser in the
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background it will take the screenshot
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and save it as a image file so quite a
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number of things this Python script does
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so now let's suppose I execute this
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Python script so python app py so it
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asks you to enter the
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address so here you can enter your
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address so let me just
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write I say Delhi and
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then India and then now what happens you
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will see the browser will open in the
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background and it will go to this
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URL and it will take the screenshot and
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save it inside your machine you will see
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PNG image
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is so you can see it has taken the
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screenshot of this Delhi address you
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will see the photo is also there
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alongside with the information about
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this address we see the overall map as
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well
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and uh let me remove this option of
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headless once again if I execute this
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Python script uh now let's suppose I
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enter any other
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address so you will see the browser will
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open it will navigate to Google maps and
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take the screenshot and close
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automatically so I am not doing anything
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it is automatically doing this
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everything for me so you can see
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everything it has gone to that specific
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address that I mentioned open the URL
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taken the screenshot and close so this
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is actually the Python script and uh
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first of all you need this module which
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is selenium simply install this and so
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command is very simple uh just search
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for
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this simply execute this by using pip
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install selenium
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so after installing it now let me show
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you the script here uh the full script
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is given in the description of this
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video so first of all you need to uh
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require the necessary packages so let me
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import all the necessary packages so in
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this way you can import this packages
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and then we will ask the user to specify
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which address they want to take the
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screenshot so using the input function
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we will say enter the
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address and then we will basically call
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the custom function which will take the
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screenshot pass the address input so
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here we just need to define this
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function so address input it takes as an
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argument and also we can pass the second
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argument which will be the output file
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which will be generated so let me call
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this give it a initial value of
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map.png so here we just need to again
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set up the default options for Selenium
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so these options actually tell Selenium
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how to set up your application so
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headless is actually the option where
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you can't see the browser window opening
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everything will be in the background
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then we set the window size 1280 by 720
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so these are normal options then we
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initialize the driver web driver chrome
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and we initialize these
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options after that we write the code in
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try catch block so here we
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specify the address
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input we replace it
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by plus and then we construct the URL
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that will be opened in the browser
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automatically
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so so like this http
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google.com/maps/place / query so
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whatever address that you mention it
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will go to that address
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automatically and now we just need
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to open this URL so for opening this URL
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we call this method driver.get pass the
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URL and then we just need to sleep for 5
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seconds so it will pause on that web
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page for 5 seconds it will take the
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screenshot so now for taking the
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screenshot we find this element again we
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write the code in try block here like
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this we click on that and then we need
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to take the screenshot for taking the
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screenshot inside Selenium we have this
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function save
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screenshot and we specify the location
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where we need to save the screenshot
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after that we can simply print out that
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your screenshot has been
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saved so like this and after that we
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need to
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finally quit the driver so
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driver.quit so this is actually the
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script here and if I launch this
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application
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uh once again you will see it will ask
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you the location so let me fill out any
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sort of location
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so once again in the background the
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browser will open take the
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screenshot and automatically close your
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file will be created
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map.png if you open this file here you
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will see the actual screenshot of that
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Google map at that specific location we
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see the picture of that uh place we see
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small little
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description the temperature everything
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you can see inside this Google map so
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this is a really useful application
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because
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uh you can actually take the screenshot
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of a Google map at a specific location
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and the nice thing is that we are not
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using any sort of API and not any sort
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of API key it's this method is
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completely free and uh you can do this
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method unlimited number of times so
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there is no such restriction and also
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check out my website freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools