Simulate Human Cursor Movement for Automated Scripts
Project description
HumanCursor: A Python package for simulating human mouse movements
HumanCursor is a Python package that allows you to simulate realistic human mouse movements on the web and the system. It can be used for automating scripts that require mouse interactions, such as web scraping, testing, or gaming.
Features
- HumanCursor uses a natural motion algorithm that mimics the way humans move the mouse cursor, with variable speed, acceleration, and curvature.
- HumanCursor can perform various mouse actions, such as clicking, dragging, scrolling, and hovering.
- HumanCursor can work with any web browser or system application that supports mouse input.
Installation
To install, you can use pip:
pip install HumanCursor
Usage
WebCursor
To use HumanCursor for Web, you need to import the WebCursor
class, and create an instance:
from HumanCursor.cursors import WebCursor
cursor = WebCursor(driver)
Then, you can use the following methods to simulate mouse movements and actions:
cursor.move_to()
: Moves the mouse cursor to the element or location on the webpage.cursor.click_on()
: Clicks on the element or location on the webpage.cursor.drag_and_drop()
: Drags the mouse cursor from one element and drops it to another element on the screen.cursor.move_by_offset()
: Moves the cursor by x and y pixels.cursor.control_scroll_bar()
: Sets the scroll bar to a certain level, can be a volume, playback slider or anything. Level is set by float number from 0 to 1, meaning fullnesscursor.scroll_into_view_of_element()
: Scrolls into view of element if not already there, it is called automatically from above functions.
These functions can accept as destination, either the WebElement itself, or a list of 'x' and 'y' coordinates.
Some parameters explained:
relative_position
: Takes a list of x and y percentages as floats from 0 to 1, which indicate the exact position inside an element for example, if you set it to [0.5, 0.5], it will move the cursor to the center of the element.absolute_offset
: If you input a list of coordinates instead of webelement, if you turn this to True, the coordinates will be interpreted as absolute movement by pixels, and not like coordinates in the webpage.
SystemCursor
To use HumanCursor for your system mouse, you need to import the SystemCursor
class, and create an instance just like we did above:
from HumanCursor.cursors import SystemCursor
cursor = SystemCursor()
The SystemCursor
class, which should be used for controlling the system mouse (with pyautogui), only inherits the move_to()
and click_on()
functions, accepting only the list of 'x' and 'y' coordinates as input, as there are no elements available.
Some examples:
cursor.move_to(element) # moves to element
cursor.move_to(element, relative_position=[0.5, 0.5]) # moves to the center of the element
cursor.move_to([450, 600]) # moves to coordinates relative to viewport x: 450, y: 600
cursor.move_to([450, 600], absolute_offset=True) # moves 450 pixels to the right and 600 pixels down
cursor.move_by_offset(200, 170) # moves 200 pixels to the right and 170 pixels down
cursor.move_by_offset(-10, -20) # moves 10 pixels to the left and 20 pixels up
cursor.click_on([170, 390]) # clicks on coordinates relative to viewport x: 170, y: 390
cursor.click_on(element, relative_position=[0.2, 0.5]) # clicks on 0.2 x width, 0.5 x height position of the element.
cursor.drag_and_drop(element1, element2) # clicks and hold on first element, and moves to and releases on the second
cursor.drag_and_drop(element, [640, 320], drag_from_relative_position=[0.9, 0.9]) # drags from element on 0.9 x width, 0.9 x height (far bottom right corner) and moves to and releases to coordinates relative to viewport x: 640, y: 320
cursor.control_scroll_bar(element, amount_by_percentage=0.75) # sets a slider to 75% full
cursor.controll_scroll_bar(element, amount_by_percentage=0.2, orientation='vertical') # sets a vertical slider to 20% full
cursor.scroll_into_view_of_element(element) # scrolls into view of element if not already in it
cursor.show_cursor() # injects javascript that will display a red dot over the cursor on webpage. Should be called only for visual testing before script and not actual work.
DEMONSTRATION:
To quickly check how the cursor moves, you can do this:
from humancursor.test.system import start_sys_demo
from humancursor.test.web import start_web_demo
start_sys_demo() # to display a couple of mouse movements with system cursor
start_web_demo() # to visualize how the mouse moves on webpage
License
HumanCursor is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
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