self-driving-desktop 0.0.3

Desktop Automation Framework. Drive your keyboard and mouse with text files.

self-driving-desktop

Desktop Automation Framework. Drive your keyboard and mouse with text files.

pip install self-driving-desktop

sdd playlist.txt [--record]

Playlists

playlist openTerm {
  hotkeys "ctrl" "alt" "t";
  sleep 1.0;

  name_active hofTerm;
  sleep 0.5;

  hotkeys "winleft" "left";
  sleep 1;
};

playlist closeTerm {
  focus hofTerm;
  hotkeys "ctrl" "shift" "q";
  sleep 1;
};

playlist closeChrome {
  focus hofChrome;
  hotkeys "alt" "f4";
  sleep 1;
};

playlist openChrome {
  shell "google-chrome";
  sleep 2.0;

  name_active hofChrome;
  sleep 0.5;

  hotkeys "winleft" "right";
  sleep 1;
};

playlist focusTest {
  focus hofTerm;
  sleep 0.2;
  write "date\n" 0.05;

  sleep 2;

  focus hofChrome;
  sleep 0.2;
  write "https://docs.hofstadter.io\n" 0.05;
};

playlist gsDocs {
  mv 100 100 1.5;
  mv 1111 272 1;
  click;
  sleep 2;
};

playlist main {
  wspace_down;
  sleep 0.2;

  play openTerm openChrome;

  play focusTest;
  play gsDocs;

  play closeChrome closeTerm;

  sleep 2;
  wspace_up;
};

play main;

Grammar

Top-level:

• file has steps and playlists
• steps are the only thing run
• play runs a playlist

Steps:

• play name nameB ...;: run one or more playlists
• delay x.y;: set delay between steps to x.y seconds
• sleep x.y;: sleep for x.y seconds
• shell "quoted strings"+;: exec a command from the program

windows:

• active someName;: name the active window
• focus someName;: focus a named window

mouse:

• mouse x y s;: move the mose to x,y in s seconds
• click;: click the left mouse button
• btnclick [left,middle,right];
• btndown [left,middle,right];
• btnup [left,middle,right];
• draw [left,middle,right] x y s;: move the mose to x,y in s seconds
• scroll n;: scroll n lines, negative is up
• hscroll n;: horizontal scroll n "clicks", negative is left

keyboard:

• keypress "key";
• keydown "key";
• keyup "key";
• hotkeys "quoted" "keys" ...;: press some keys together
• write "quoted string\n";: type a string, "\n" is enter

clipboard:

• copy;, just ctrl-c
• paste;, just ctrl-v
• save_clipboard "name"; save the clipboard contents to "name"
• load_clipboard "name"; load the clipboard contents from "name"
• copy_clipboard "name"; copy && save the clipboard contents to "name"
• paste_clipboard "name"; load the clipboard contents from "name" && paste

all keys are from pyautogui

Grammer Definition

Development Setup

virtualenv --python python3 penv
source penv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=.
python self_driving_desktop/__main__.py ...