pccloner 0.0.9

Clone your repetitive PC tasks

pccloner

When you perform a task on your PC, it stores mouse and keyboard actions along with the concurrent cursor position (and preceding screenshot) and then you can replay the stored task when you want.

Supported features:

• It can replay double clicks and drag motions
• It is prepared to replay almost all single keyboard events (please report to me if you find one not supported)
• It has been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 11.

Current limitations:

• Hotkeys are not supported.
• The initial screen state at replaying must be similar to the stored initial screen state to work well.
• Store task must be replayed in the same computer.

Authors

• Erik Zamora

Installation

pip install pccloner

On ubuntu: it requires to install gnome-screenshot.

sudo apt install gnome-screenshot

Usage

1. Write a python script with following lines:

File: collector.py

from pccloner.pcdata import Collector

pc = Collector()
pc.start()

2. Run the previous script. On Ubuntu: sudo [your python path here] collector.py. Or on Windows: python collector.py

3. Press the ESC key to start recording. And don't forget to press again the ESC key to terminate the recording. This code will create a folder called "data" where it will save all the data related to your task. Note: On Ubuntu, it is useful, not necesary, to change the permissions of the data folder with sudo chown -R $USER:$USER data/

4. Use the following example to replay your previous stored task.

from pccloner.pctask import Replayer
import pandas as pd

sample_paths = glob('./data/*/*.csv')   # Select the right path of your stored tasks
ix_sample = 2  # Select your stored task 

sample = pd.read_csv(sample_paths[ix_sample], index_col=0)
task1 = Replayer(sample, data_dir='./')
task1.execute()