python screenshot
Project description
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.
- Links:
documentation: http://ponty.github.com/pyscreenshot
- Features:
Crossplatform wrapper
Capturing the whole desktop
Capturing an area
saving to file or PIL image memory
some backends are based on this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69645/take-a-screenshot-via-a-python-script-linux
- Known problems:
not implemented: Capturing an active window
different backends generate slightly different images from the same desktop, this should be investigated
ImageMagick creates blackbox on some systems
PyGTK backend does not check $DISPLAY -> not working with Xvfb
slow: 0.2s - 0.7s
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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
General
Ubuntu
# one or more sudo apt-get install scrot sudo apt-get install imagemagick sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 sudo apt-get install python-qt4 sudo apt-get install python-wxversion # Python Imaging Library (required) sudo apt-get install python-imaging sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install pyscreenshot
Uninstall
# as root pip uninstall pyscreenshot
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