pyscreenshot 0.1.3

screenshot

The pyscreenshot module can be used to copy the contents of the screen to a PIL image memory or file. Replacement for the ImageGrab Module, which works on Windows only.

Plugin based, it has wrappers for scrot, ImageMagick and PIL.

home: https://github.com/ponty/pyscreenshot

Usage

Example:

import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab
# fullscreen
im=ImageGrab.grab()
im.show()
# part of the screen
im=ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(10,10,500,500))
im.show()
# to file
ImageGrab.grab_to_file('im.png')

Installation

You should install at least one backend on linux.

On Ubuntu:

# one of them
sudo apt-get install scrot
sudo apt-get install imagemagick

The easiest way to get pyscreenshot is if you have setuptools installed:

easy_install pyscreenshot

or if you have pip installed:

pip install pyscreenshot

Uninstall:

pip uninstall pyscreenshot