Using chrome.tabs.captureVisibleTab() from DevTools console

Question

I'm curious as to whether it is possible to take a screenshot directly from Chrome's DevTools using chrome.tabs.captureVisibleTab (be it from the console or from within a snippet), without going through the process of creating an extension.

Is this somehow possible? If not, how would you suggest going about taking a screenshot that reliably mimics the current page (html2canvas doesn't seem to render everything properly). Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Here is a page screenshot tool provided by Google. After installed, you may open "chrome-extension://cpngackimfmofbokmjmljamhdncknpmg/js/page_context.js" in browser to see its code. This extension do not use Chrome Extension API. It works well in most pages, except some complicated pages.