python-screenshot

Python library to make screen captures and save the images to the current working directory.

Installing:

• Download the source, and run python setup.py build install

Examples:

• Importing the library:

from screenshot import ScreenShot

screen = ScreenShot()

• Output image size defaults to 800x450. A custom size can be set when the ScreenShot object is instantiated:

screen = ScreenShot((640, 480))

• Taking a screenshot: this saves the screenshot to the current working directory as a .png file

screen.grab()

The system time at the moment the screenshot was taken is used as the filename

• Taking two screenshots, 1 second apart:

import time
screen.grab()
time.sleep(1)
screen.grab()

• To check for all screenshot files in the current working directory, and get the file names as well as corresponding system times:

from screenshot import get_times

print get_times()

This will return a list of (system time, filename) tuples.