QGIS capture screenshot of visible map (PyQGIS or other alternatives)

Question

I would like to take a screenshot of my QGIS area, which I am working on.

It does look pretty much as you can see below:

I would like to grab only the visible area of my map. I am not talking about map canvas, as mentioned here:

Save map canvas as image with Python in QGIS

PyQGIS make screenshot of mapCanvas after setExtent is called

or here

Saving Map Canvas as PNG with transparent background programmatically with QGIS?

or here

Export Map Canvas QGIS

I simply want to have an option to grab the screen from my QGIS working area defined by it visible bounds (after dock windows visible).

I tried some of the codes, but they didn't work:

 mainPath = 'C:\\Users\\mk\\Desktop\\AX\\Pre survey\\Tyton\\'
 filename = 'StrandAAA'
 imageType = "png"

 imageWidth_mm = 400
 imageHeight_mm = 160
 dpi = 300

 mapRenderer = iface.mapCanvas().mapRenderer()

 c = QgsComposition(mapRenderer)
 c.setPlotStyle(QgsComposition.Print)

 c.setPaperSize(400, 160)

 x, y = 0, 0
 w, h = c.paperWidth(), c.paperHeight()
 composerMap = QgsComposerMap(c, x ,y, w, h)
 c.addItem(composerMap)

 # get all items and disable the backgrounds
 itemList = c.items()
 c.removeItem(itemList[2])
 c.removeItem(itemList[2])
 itemList[2].setBackgroundEnabled(False)
 itemList[3].setBackgroundEnabled(False)
 # add them to the composition
 c.addItem(itemList[2])
 c.addItem(itemList[3])

 c.refreshItems()
 c.refreshDataDefinedProperty(QgsComposerObject.AllProperties)

 c.setPrintResolution(dpi)
 dpmm = dpi / 25.4
 width = int(dpmm * c.paperWidth())
 height = int(dpmm * c.paperHeight())

 # create output image and initialize it
 # image = QImage(QSize(width, height), QImage.Format_ARGB32)
 image = QImage(QSize(width, height), QImage.Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied)
 image.setDotsPerMeterX(dpmm * 1000)
 image.setDotsPerMeterY(dpmm * 1000)
 #image.fill(0)

 imagePainter = QPainter(image)

 # This part does not seem to have any effect
 #brush = QBrush(Qt.BrushStyle(0)) # transparent brush
 #
 #imagePainter.setBackgroundMode(0)
 #c.setBackgroundBrush(brush)

 c.renderPage( imagePainter, 0 )
 imagePainter.end()


 imageFilename =  mainPath + filename + '.' + imageType
 image.save(imageFilename, imageType)
 print 'image saved'
 print 'done

but it didn't work, the same as:

  vlayer.select(ID)
 qgis.utils.iface.actionZoomToSelected().trigger()
 vlayer.deselect(ID)
 qgis.utils.iface.mapCanvas().saveAsImage('C:\\Users\\mk\\Desktop\\AX\\Pre survey\\Tyton\\feature.png')

The solution is shown on the YT channel here also wasn't successful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17AXqO5_s7g&ab_channel=OpenSourceOptions

I think I am closer to this solution:

Is it possible to take automatically a "screenshot" of my selected feature in QGIS using Python?

butt instead of selected feature I need the visible map area

The typical solution for taking a screenshot in Windows doesn't solve my request

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2846947/get-screenshot-on-windows-with-python

although in Pyscreenshot v2.3 I can define the rough bounds of my screen and capture them, how about if I change my QGIS window to another place

https://pypi.org/project/pyscreenshot/#files

Is there an option to capture the screenshot of the visible map in QGIS both by using PyGIS or maybe not programmatically (GRASS or sth?)

Answer 1

You may try the following to capture the QGIS main window area with all infos if you use "pyscreenshot"

from qgis.PyQt.QtGui import QScreen
import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab
from datetime import datetime

date = datetime.now()
filename = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.jpg')
mainWin = iface.mainWindow()

x, y, w, h = mainWin.x(), mainWin.y(), mainWin.width(), mainWin.height()
bbox = (x, y, x + w, y + h)
# part of the screen
im = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=bbox)

# save image file
im.save(f"/tmp/{filename}.png")

# If you want a dialog box (above im.save can be commented in this case)
path, ok = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(mainWin, "Save file", "", "Images (*.png *.jpg)");
if ok:
    im.save(path)

If you want only the map area, it should be

# Change the path
iface.mapCanvas().saveAsImage('/tmp/out.png')

# You can also use the following to reuse existing dialog for saving image
iface.actionSaveMapAsImage().trigger()