A cross-platform module for GUI automation for human beings. Control the keyboard and mouse from a Python script.
Project description
PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.
Full documentation available at https://pyautogui.readthedocs.org
Source code available at https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui
Dependencies
Windows has no dependencies. The Win32 extensions do not need to be installed.
OS X needs the pyobjc-core and pyobjc module installed (in that order).
Linux needs the python3-Xlib (or python-Xlib for Python 2) module installed.
Pillow needs to be installed, and on Linux you may need to install additional libraries to make sure Pillow’s PNG/JPEG works correctly. See:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7648200/pip-install-pil-e-tickets-1-no-jpeg-png-support
Example Usage
Keyboard and Mouse Control
>>> import pyautogui
>>> screenWidth, screenHeight = pyautogui.size()
>>> currentMouseX, currentMouseY = pyautogui.position()
>>> pyautogui.moveTo(100, 150)
>>> pyautogui.click()
>>> pyautogui.moveRel(None, 10) # move mouse 10 pixels down
>>> pyautogui.doubleClick()
>>> pyautogui.moveTo(500, 500, duration=2, tween=pyautogui.tweens.easeInOutQuad) # use tweening/easing function to move mouse over 2 seconds.
>>> pyautogui.typewrite('Hello world!', interval=0.25) # type with quarter-second pause in between each key
>>> pyautogui.press('esc')
>>> pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
>>> pyautogui.typewrite(['left', 'left', 'left', 'left', 'left', 'left'])
>>> pyautogui.keyUp('shift')
>>> pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 'c')
Display Message Boxes
>>> import pyautogui
>>> pyautogui.alert('This is an alert box.')
'OK'
>>> pyautogui.confirm('Shall I proceed?')
'Cancel'
>>> pyautogui.confirm('Enter option.', buttons=['A', 'B', 'C'])
'B'
>>> pyautogui.prompt('What is your name?')
'Al'
>>> pyautogui.password('Enter password (text will be hidden)')
'swordfish'
Screenshot Functions
(PyAutoGUI uses Pillow for image-related features.)
>>> import pyautogui
>>> im1 = pyautogui.screenshot()
>>> im1.save('my_screenshot.png')
>>> im2 = pyautogui.screenshot('my_screenshot2.png')
You can also locate where an image is on the screen:
>>> import pyautogui
>>> button7location = pyautogui.locateOnScreen('button.png') # returns (left, top, width, height) of matching region
>>> button7location
(1416, 562, 50, 41)
>>> buttonx, buttony = pyautogui.center(button7location)
>>> buttonx, buttony
(1441, 582)
>>> pyautogui.click(buttonx, buttony) # clicks the center of where the button was found
The locateCenterOnScreen() function returns the center of this match region:
>>> import pyautogui
>>> buttonx, buttony = pyautogui.locateCenterOnScreen('button.png') # returns (x, y) of matching region
>>> buttonx, buttony
(1441, 582)
>>> pyautogui.click(buttonx, buttony) # clicks the center of where the button was found
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