pymacos

A Pythonic interface to macOS. Notifications, clipboard, keyboard and mouse, windows, global hotkeys, dark mode, apps, Keychain, speech, screenshots, battery, volume, Shortcuts, Finder, Spotlight, dialogs, system info, OCR, document scanning, background removal, duplicate photos, images, PDFs, videos, music control, audio devices, Bluetooth, brightness and language tools, all from one import with zero dependencies.

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import macos

macos.notify("Build finished", title="CI")
macos.say("Done!")

macos.clipboard.copy("hello")
macos.appearance.is_dark()                      # True
macos.screenshot("screen.png")

macos.apps.open("Safari")                       # App(name='Safari', ...)
macos.keychain.get("my-app", "alice")           # 's3cret'

macos.power.battery()                           # Battery(percent=87, charging=True, ...)
macos.shortcuts.run("Translate", input="Olá")   # 'Hello'
macos.finder.trash("old.log")                   # moved to the Trash

Install

pip install pymacos

The package is installed as pymacos and imported as macos.

Requires macOS and Python 3.9+.

Why

A notification from plain Python means AppleScript inside a string, which breaks as soon as the message contains a quote:

subprocess.run(["osascript", "-e", 'display notification "Build finished" with title "CI"'])

With pymacos:

macos.notify("Build finished", title="CI")

Across the whole package:

No dependencies: no PyObjC, nothing to compile.
Plain, typed functions that return Python objects.
Any text is safe: nothing is pasted into shell or AppleScript source.
Clear errors when macOS is missing a permission, instead of silent failures.

See Why pymacos? for a longer comparison.

Documentation

The full guide and API reference are at macos.readthedocs.io.

License

Released under the MIT License — free for personal and commercial use.

_{Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. macOS is a trademark of Apple Inc.}

appkit audio-devices automation battery bluetooth brightness caffeinate clipboard cocoa ctypes dark-mode dialogs document-scanner duplicate-photos embeddings exif finder heic hotkeys keyboard keychain mac macos mouse music notifications ocr osx pdf qr-code remove-background screenshot shortcuts spotlight system-info text-to-speech video volume wallpaper window-management

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