PyDesktopBrowserRecorder

This project allows you to record your desktop or the browser during an automated test using selenium's webdriver

To install it, just open a terminal and execute:

pip install pydesktopbrowserrecorder

PiPY Project: https://pypi.org/project/pydesktopbrowserrecorder/

Once installed, you just have to make the following import:

from selenium_browser_desktop_recorder import SeleniumBrowserRecorder

Then you create a SeleniumBrowserRecorder object, you have two modes.

First mode:

obj = SeleniumBrowserRecorder(folder,encoding)

• folder: Folder where we want to create the folder that will contain the videos for our recording session
• encoding: Encoding of the video. We only assure that using ".mp4" will work This way, when you start the recording session, the desktop will be recorded until we stop the recording session

But you can also provide a third parameter:

obj = SeleniumBrowserRecorder(folder,encoding,driver)

• driver: A webdriver object

  In this case, we will record only the browser window(s) that are being controlled by that webdriver object

To start the recording session once we build the object we only have to use this method:

obj.start_recording_session()

And our object will start recording in a parallel thread

To stop the recording session we only have to:

obj.stop_recording_session()

The video will be saved and the threads finished

NOTE: If we are recording a browser and the size of it changes, we will stop the current video and start a new one with the new size of the window

NOTE: This was developed using the following versions of the following external libraries:

• imageio_ffmpeg = 0.4.5
• numpy~=1.22.2
• imageio==2.15.0
• PyAutoGUI~=0.9.53
• selenium~=4.1.0
• Pillow~=9.0.1