Screenshot Capture / Browser Extension

Install: Chrome / Donate: PayPal

Features

• Capture Viewport
• Crop and Save (automatic save)
• Crop and Wait (manual save)
• Configurable Keyboard Shortcut (Default Alt+S)
• 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

1. Click on the extension icon using your Right Mouse Button
2. 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 pages
• JPG - 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

• Preserve original DPI size - the screenshot will be saved with the actual page size that you are seeing on screen
• Adjust to actual size - on HDPI displays like Retina or zoomed in pages, the screenshot will be downscaled to the original page size

Keyboard Shortcut

Default option is Alt+S

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions
2. Click on the menu icon in the top left corner and choose Keyboard shortcuts from the menu
3. Find Screenshot Capture and set key combination for the Take Screenshot action

Save Location

This extension uses chrome's default download behaviour

1. Navigate to chrome://settings
2. Click on the menu icon in the top left corner and expand the Advanced section in the sidebar menu
3. Click on Downloads
4. Change the default download Location
5. 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://... and chrome-extension://...
• the official chrome web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-present Simeon Velichkov [email protected] (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.