Capturing Screenshots with Python

Due to audit compliance, it is necessary to store captures of specific screens every month.
To automate this routine task, I will perform page captures using Python so that I only need to run the program each month.

.py file

cap.py

import subprocess

appDic = {}
appDic['fileName1'] = 'https://xxxxxxx/articles/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1'
appDic['fileName2'] = 'https://xxxxxxx/articles/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2'


# Iterate through the appDic dictionary, extracting keys and values one by one
for appName, url in appDic.items():
    # Print to the console for debugging and monitoring progress
    print("key:" + appName + ", values:" + url)
    # Opens the web page address stored in the variable 'url' using Google Chrome.
    result = subprocess.run(['open', '-a', 'Google Chrome', url], capture_output=True, text=True)
    # Pause for 3 seconds (waiting for the web page to load)
    subprocess.run(['sleep', '3'], capture_output=True, text=True)
    # Execute the macOS screencapture command to take a screenshot of the screen
    subprocess.run(['screencapture', '-m', '-t', 'pdf', '/Users/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/Documents/xxxxxxxxxxx/' + appName + '.pdf'], capture_output=True, text=True)

Store this in a Python file.

Execution

$ python3 {the_relevant_py_file}

Running this will start the process.