Question: I have searched a lot for this but couldn't find a solution. Here's [a similar question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10848900/how-to-take-partial-screenshot-frame-with-selenium-webdriver) with a possible solution in java.

Is there a similar solution in Python?

Answer: 
Expanding on the comments in response to RandomPhobia's very nice answer, here are two solutions with correct import statements that will open a full-screen screenshot without first saving to a file:

```
from selenium import webdriver
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
import base64

DRIVER = 'chromedriver'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(DRIVER)

browser.get( "http:\\\\www.bbc.co.uk" )

img 1 = Image.open(StringIO(base64.decodestring(browser.get_screenshot_as_base64())))

img 2 = Image.open(StringIO(browser.get_screenshot_as_png()))

```

And because I'm sure your next question is, "Well that's great but which one is fastest?", here's how to determine it (I find the first method to be the fastest by some distance):

```
import timeit

setup = '''
from selenium import webdriver
from PIL import Image
from StringIO import StringIO
import base64

DRIVER = 'chromedriver'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(DRIVER)
browser.get( "http:\\\\www.bbc.co.uk" )

file_name = 'tmp.png'
'''

print timeit.Timer('Image.open(StringIO(browser.get_screenshot_as_png()))', setup=setup).repeat(2, 10)
print timeit.Timer('Image.open(StringIO(base64.decodestring(browser.get_screenshot_as_base64())))', setup=setup).repeat(2, 10)
print timeit.Timer('browser.get_screenshot_as_file(file_name); pil_img = Image.open(file_name)', setup=setup).repeat(2, 10)

```
I converted @randomphobia's answer into a function. I also used @bummis' suggestion of using `location_once_scrolled_into_view` instead of `location` in order to generalize no matter the size of the page.

```py
from selenium import webdriver
from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO

def take_screenshot(element, driver, filename='screenshot.png'):
  location = element.location_once_scrolled_into_view
  size = element.size
  png = driver.get_screenshot_as_png() # saves screenshot of entire page

  im = Image.open(BytesIO(png)) # uses PIL library to open image in memory

  left = location['x']
  top = location['y']
  right = location['x'] + size['width']
  bottom = location['y'] + size['height']

  im = im.crop((left, top, right, bottom)) # defines crop points
  im.save(filename) # saves new cropped image

```

Here's a gist: <https://gist.github.com/WittmannF/b714d3ceb7b6a5cd50002f11fb5a4929>