Cheat script for 10fastfingers.com

1_fast_computer_tesseract

#!/bin/python2
# rudimentary script to cheat on 10fastfingers.com (yeah this is useless)
# requires gnome-screenshot, imagemagick (convert), xte and tesseract (+ data-eng)

import subprocess

def h_exec(cmd):
  """ Exec command and return stdout as string"""
  proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  return ("".join(filter(lambda x:x and x!='\n', proc.stdout.readlines()))).replace("\n", " ")

def press(keys):
  """ Write on keyboard the given string """
  for c in keys:
   if c.isalpha():
    h_exec(["xte", "key "+c])
   else:
    if c==" ":
     h_exec(["xte", "key space"])

def h_alt_tab():
  """ Do alt tab """
  h_exec(["xte", "keydown Alt_L", "key Tab", "keyup Alt_L"])

def h_screenshot():
  """ Take screenshot and crop for game """
  h_exec(["gnome-screenshot", "-f", "/tmp/1.png", "-w"])
  h_exec(["convert", "/tmp/1.png", "-crop", "820x92+235+252", "/tmp/2.png"])

def read_screen():
  h_screenshot()
  return h_exec(["tesseract", "/tmp/2.png", "stdout", "-l", "eng", "-psm", "3"])

h_alt_tab()
for i in range(20):
  press(read_screen())