Take a Screenshot in Java - Example

This example shows how to take or capture a screenshot in Java.
createScreenCapture method of the Robot class from java.awt package is used to capture a screenshot and save as image file.

Below Java program Captures the screen shot of the area of the screen defined by the rectangle.

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class RobotExp {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        try {
            
            Robot robot = new Robot();
            // Capture the screen shot of the area of the screen defined by the rectangle
            BufferedImage bi = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(100,100));
            ImageIO.write(bi, "jpg", new File("C:/imageTest.jpg"));
            
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

import java.awt.AWTException;

import java.awt.Rectangle;

import java.awt.Robot;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class RobotExp {

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {

Robot robot = new Robot();

// Capture the screen shot of the area of the screen defined by the rectangle

BufferedImage bi = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(100,100));

ImageIO.write(bi, "jpg", new File("C:/imageTest.jpg"));

} catch (AWTException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

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