A cross-platform multi-screen shot module in pure python using ctypes
Project description
Very basic, it will grab one screen shot by monitor or a screen shot of all monitors and save it to an optimised PNG file, Python 2.7/3.3 compatible.
So, while you can pip install mss, you may just drop it in your project and forget about it.
MSS stands for Multi-Screen Shot.
It’s under zlib licence.
Instance the good class
You can determine automatically which class to use:
from platform import system
from mss import *
systems = {
'Darwin' : MSSMac,
'Linux' : MSSLinux,
'Windows': MSSWindows
}
try:
MSS = systems[system()]
except KeyError:
err = 'System "{0}" not implemented.'.format(system())
raise NotImplementedError(err)
Or simply import the good one:
from mss import MSSLinux as MSS
init(debug=False)
When initalising an instance of MSS, you can enable debug output:
mss = MSS(debug=True)
save(output=’mss’, oneshot=False)
For each monitor, grab a screen shot and save it to a file.
Parameters:
output - string - the output filename without extension oneshot - boolean - grab only one screen shot of all monitors
This is a generator which returns created files:
'output-1.png', 'output-2.png', ..., 'output-NN.png' or 'output-full.png'
Example
Then, it is quite simple:
try:
mss = MSS()
# One screen shot per monitor
for filename in mss.save():
print('File "{0}" created.'.format(filename))
# A shot to grab them all :)
for filename in mss.save(oneshot=True):
print('File "{0}" created.'.format(filename))
except Exception as ex:
print(ex)
raise
Bonus
Just for fun … Show us your screen shot with all monitors in one file, we will update the gallery.
Link to the galley: https://tiger-222.fr/tout/python-mss/galerie/
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