Screenshot Capture / Browser Extension

Install: Chrome / Edge / Opera / Brave / Chromium / Vivaldi

Features

• Secure by design
• Capture Viewport
• Crop and Save (automatic save)
• Crop and Wait (manual save)
• Configurable Keyboard Shortcut
• Save screenshot as PNG or JPG file format
• Save screenshot as file
• Copy screenshot to clipboard as Data URL String or Binary Image
• Preserve or downscale screenshot size on HDPI displays like Retina
• Unique screenshot date/time file name
• No special permissions required
• Free and Open Source

Options

1. Click on the extension button using your Right Mouse Button
2. Select Options from the context menu

Table of Contents

• Capture Method
• Image Format
• Save Format
• Screenshot Size
• Keyboard Shortcut
• Save Location
• Origins

Capture Method

• Capture Viewport - activate the extension (either by using the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) to capture the visible portion of the screen. You will be prompted where to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences)

• Crop and Save - activate the extension (either by 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 prompted where to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences)

• Crop and Wait - activate the extension (either by 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 by using the toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut) to crop the selected area. You will be prompted where 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 with slightly worse image quality. Useful when taking fullscreen screenshots of images and videos

Save Format

• To File - save the screenshot to a file, you will be prompted where to save the screenshot or the screenshot will be saved automatically (depending on your download preferences)
• To Clipboard (Data URL String) - the screenshot will be copied to the clipboard as Data URL String
• To Clipboard (Binary Image) - the screenshot will be copied to the clipboard as raw Binary Image

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

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions/shortcuts
2. Find Screenshot Capture and set key combination for the Take Screenshot action

Save Location

1. Navigate to chrome://settings/downloads
2. Change the default download Location
3. 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/category/extensions

Manual Install

The following instructions applies for: Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Chromium and Vivaldi.

Note that in any of the following cases you won't receive any future updates automatically!

Load packed .crx

1. Go to releases and pick a release that you want to install
2. Download the markdown-viewer.crx file
3. Navigate to chrome://extensions
4. Make sure that the Developer mode switch is enabled
5. Drag and drop the markdown-viewer.crx file into the chrome://extensions page

Load unpacked .zip

1. Go to releases and pick a release that you want to install
2. Download the markdown-viewer.zip file and extract it
3. Navigate to chrome://extensions
4. Make sure that the Developer mode switch is enabled
5. Click on the Load unpacked button and select the extracted directory

Build

1. Clone this repository
2. Execute sh build/package.sh chrome
3. Navigate to chrome://extensions
4. Make sure that the Developer mode switch is enabled
5. Click on the Load unpacked button and select the cloned directory

Manifest v2

1. Clone the mv2 branch (Screenshot Capture v2.0)
2. Navigate to chrome://extensions
3. Make sure that the Developer mode switch is enabled
4. Click on the Load unpacked button and select the cloned directory

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.