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
- Goal:
Pyscreenshot tries to allow to take screenshots without installing 3rd party libraries. It is cross-platform but useful for Linux based distributions. It is only a pure Python wrapper, a thin layer over existing back-ends. Its strategy should work on most Linux distributions: a lot of back-ends are wrapped, if at least one exists then it works, if not then one back-end should be installed. Performance and interactivity are not important for this library.
- Features:
Cross-platform wrapper
Capturing the whole desktop
Capturing an area
saving to file or PIL image memory
some back-ends are based on this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69645/take-a-screenshot-via-a-python-script-linux
pure Python library
- Known problems:
not implemented: Capturing an active window
different back-ends generate slightly different images from the same desktop, this should be investigated
ImageMagick creates blackbox on some systems
PyGTK back-end does not check $DISPLAY -> not working with Xvfb
slow: 0.2s - 0.7s
- Similar projects:
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
sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install pyscreenshot sudo apt-get install python-imaging # optional back-ends sudo apt-get install scrot sudo apt-get install imagemagick sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 sudo apt-get install python-qt4 # optional for examples sudo pip install entrypoint2
Uninstall
# as root pip uninstall pyscreenshot
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