Screenshot Capture / Browser Extension
Install: Chrome / Donate: PayPal
Features
- Capture Viewport
- Crop and Save (automatic save)
- Crop and Wait (manual save)
- Configurable Keyboard Shortcut
- Save screenshots in PNG or JPG file format
- Save screenshots to file or copy to clipboard as Base64
- Preserve or downscale screenshot size on HDPI displays like Retina
- Unique screenshot date/time file name
- No special permissions required
- Open Source
Options
- Click on the extension button using your Right Mouse Button
- Select
Options
from the context menu
Capture Method
-
Capture Viewport
- activate the extension (either using the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) to capture the visible part of the screen. You will be either prompted to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences) -
Crop and Save
- activate the extension (either using the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) then hold down your left mouse button somewhere on the page and drag your mouse in any direction. When you release the mouse button the selected area will be cropped and you will be either prompted to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences) -
Crop and Wait
- activate the extension (either using the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) then hold down your left mouse button somewhere on the page and drag your mouse in any direction. When you are ready - activate the extension again (either through the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) to crop the selected area. You will be either prompted to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences)
Image Format
PNG
- better image quality but larger file size. Best suited for cropping and capturing simple web pagesJPG
- smaller file size but a bit worse image quality. Useful when taking fullscreen screenshots of images and videos
Save Format
To File
- you will be either prompted to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences)To Clipboard (Base64)
- the screenshot will be copied to the clipboard as Base64 encoded string
Screenshot Size
Preserver original DPI size
- the screenshot will be saved with the actual page size that you are seeing on screenAdjust to actual size
- on HDPI displays like Retina or zoomed in pages, the screenshot will be downscaled to the original page size
Keyboard Shortcut
- Navigate to
chrome://extensions
- Click on the menu icon in the top left corner and choose
Keyboard shortcuts
from the menu - Find Screenshot Capture and set key combination for the
Take Screenshot
action
Save Location
- Navigate to
chrome://settings
- Click on the menu icon in the top left corner and expand the
Advanced
section in the sidebar menu - Click on
Downloads
- Change the default download
Location
- Use the
Ask where to save each file before downloading
switch to toggle the autosaving
Origins
Note that the extension won't work on certain origins:
- chrome origins like:
chrome://...
andchrome-extension://...
- the official chrome web store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014-present Simeon Velichkov simeonvelichkov@gmail.com (https://github.com/simov/screenshot-capture)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.