Index: conf/nutch-default.xml
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--- conf/nutch-default.xml	(revision 1682122)
+++ conf/nutch-default.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1661,4 +1661,24 @@
   </description>
 </property>
 
+<!-- protocol-selenium plugin properties -->
+
+<property>
+  <name>selenium.take.screenshot</name>
+  <value>false</value>
+  <description>
+    Boolean property determining whether the protocol-selenium
+    WebDriver should capture a screenshot of the URL.
+  </description>
+</property>
+
+<property>
+  <name>selenium.screenshot.location</name>
+  <value></value>
+  <description>
+    The location on disk where a URL screenshot should be saved
+    to if the selenium.take.screenshot proerty is set to true.
+  </description>
+</property>
+
 </configuration>
Index: src/plugin/lib-selenium/src/java/org/apache/nutch/protocol/selenium/HttpWebClient.java
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--- src/plugin/lib-selenium/src/java/org/apache/nutch/protocol/selenium/HttpWebClient.java	(revision 1682122)
+++ src/plugin/lib-selenium/src/java/org/apache/nutch/protocol/selenium/HttpWebClient.java	(working copy)
@@ -16,15 +16,19 @@
  */
 package org.apache.nutch.protocol.selenium;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.openqa.selenium.By;
+import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
+import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
 import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
 import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.lang.String;
 
 public class HttpWebClient {
@@ -45,6 +49,17 @@
     };
   };
 
+  /**
+   * Function for obtaining the HTML BODY using the selected
+   * {@link org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver}.
+   * There are a number of configuration properties within
+   * <code>nutch-site.xml</code> which determine whether to
+   * take screenshots of the rendered pages and persist them
+   * as timestamped .png to local disk.
+   * @param url the URL to fetch and render
+   * @param conf the {@link org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration}
+   * @return the rendered inner HTML page
+   */
   public static String getHtmlPage(String url, Configuration conf) {
     WebDriver driver = null;
 
@@ -59,6 +74,15 @@
 
       // Wait for the page to load, timeout after 3 seconds
       new WebDriverWait(driver, 3);
+      
+      if (conf.getBoolean("selenium.take.screenshot", false)) {
+        File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
+        LOG.debug("Screenshot taken of: ", url);
+        if (conf.get("selenium.screenshot.location") != null) {
+          FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File(conf.get("selenium.screenshot.location") + File.pathSeparator + url + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".png"));
+          LOG.debug("Screenshot saved to: ", conf.get("selenium.screenshot.location"));
+        }
+      }
 
       String innerHtml = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getAttribute("innerHTML");