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A simple library to perform a continuous screenshot of your screen using pyautogui module - In Python
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# MIT License | |
# Copyright (c) 2016 Derrick Rono | |
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# | |
# Firstly install Pyautogui module using: | |
# | |
# pip install pyautogui | |
import pyautogui, os, datetime | |
counter = 0 | |
directory = "Image Folder" | |
imageFilePrefix = "Screenshot" | |
currentTime = datetime.datetime | |
# Create screenshot directory (if it doesn't exist) | |
def CreateDirectory(): | |
if not os.path.exists(directory): | |
os.makedirs(directory) | |
# Entry point | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
try: | |
#create directory if missing | |
CreateDirectory() | |
while True: | |
# Increase the image counter | |
counter += 1 | |
# Take screenshot | |
pic = pyautogui.screenshot() | |
# Save the image | |
pic.save("%s/%s-%s.png" % (directory, imageFilePrefix, str(currentTime.now()).replace(':', '').replace('.', '')) ) | |
print("Saved Screenshot %s" % counter) | |
except Exception as e: | |
print(e) |
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To install pyautogui module, run the command below on your command line/terminal:
pip install pyautogui