How do I take a screenshot?

[BrianPugh]

In the rich documentation, it says I can pass the parameter console = Console(record=True) and then later invoke export_svg and then probably convert it to a png or jpg.

However, in this commit, the ability to pass in your own console object was removed.

So, my question is, whats the best way to programmatically take a screenshot of the running textual application? Use case: I'm making a dashboard and I want to bind the button "s" so that it saves a copy of the current dashboard state to a timestamped image.

[willmcgugan]

There's a method for this in the css branch. For the master branch, try constructing a Console and printing the app.

[BrianPugh]

That worked! For anyone who wants the explicit answer:

from textual.app import App
from rich.console import Console

class MyApp(App):
    async def on_load(self) -> None:
        await self.bind("s", "screenshot", "Screenshot")

    def action_screenshot(self) -> None:
        console = Console(record=True)
        console.print(self)
        console.save_svg("screenshot.svg", title="MyTitle")