Get screenshot on Windows with Python

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I am creating a Beta Testers reporting module so they can send in thier comments on my software  but I would like to have the option to include a screenshot with the report  How do I take a screenshot of the screen with Python on Windows  I have found several examples on Linux  but haven t had much luck on Windows

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First of all  install PrtSc Library using pip3   import PrtSc PrtSc as Screen  screenshot PrtSc PrtSc True  filename png

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Another approach that is really fast is the MSS module  It is different from other solutions in the way that it uses only the ctypes standard module  so it does not require big dependencies  It is OS independant and its use is made easy   from mss import mss  with mss   as sct      sct shot     And just find the screenshot png file containing the screen shot of the first monitor  There are a lot of possibile customizations  you can play with ScreenShot objects and OpenCV Numpy PIL etc

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Worth noting that ImageGrab only works on MSWindows   For cross platform compatibility  a person may be best off with using the wxPython library  http   wiki wxpython org WorkingWithImages A Flexible Screen Capture App  import wx wx App      Need to create an App instance before doing anything screen   wx ScreenDC   size   screen GetSize   bmp   wx EmptyBitmap size 0   size 1   mem   wx MemoryDC bmp  mem Blit 0  0  size 0   size 1   screen  0  0  del mem    Release bitmap bmp SaveFile  screenshot png   wx BITMAP TYPE PNG

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This can be done with PIL  First  install it  then you can take a full screenshot like this   import PIL ImageGrab  im   PIL ImageGrab grab   im show

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A simple way to take a screenshot is through Pygame    pygame image save Surface  filename    Where  Surface  is the surface you are taking a screenshot of  and  filename  is the file path  name  and type where you save thew image   You can export as BMP  TGA  PNG  or JPEG  As of Pygame 1 8  PNG  and JPEG also work   If no file extension is specified it will default to a  TGA file   You can even use the  os  library for saving to specific file directories   An example   import os import pygame surface   pygame display set mode  100  100   0  32  surface fill  255  255  255   pygame draw circle surface   0  0  0    10  10   15  0  pygame display update   pygame image save surface  os path expanduser    Desktop pic png      This saves anything on the  surface  Surface to the user s desktop as pic png

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import pyautogui  s   pyautogui screenshot   s save r C   Users  NAME  Pictures  s png

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You can use the ImageGrab module  ImageGrab works on Windows and macOS  and you need PIL  Pillow  to use it  Here is a little example   from PIL import ImageGrab snapshot   ImageGrab grab   save path    C   Users  YourUser  Desktop  MySnapshot jpg  snapshot save save path

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For pyautogui users   import pyautogui screenshot   pyautogui screenshot

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If you want to snap particular running Windows app you   ll have to acquire a handle by looping over all open windows in your system   It   s easier if you can open this app from Python script  Then you can convert process pid into window handle   Another challenge is to snap the app that runs in particular monitor  I have 3 monitor system and I had to figure out how to snap display 2 and 3   This example will take multiple application snapshots and save them into JPEG files   import wx  print wx version    app wx App      Need to create an App instance before doing anything dc wx Display GetCount   print dc   e 0  displays    wx Display i  for i in range wx Display GetCount     sizes    display GetGeometry   GetSize   for display in displays   for  i s  in enumerate sizes       print  Monitor   size is     format i s      screen   wx ScreenDC    pprint dir screen   size   screen GetSize    print  Width       format size 0    print  Heigh       format size 1     width size 0  height size 1  x y w h  putty rect  bmp   wx Bitmap w h  mem   wx MemoryDC bmp   for i in range 98       if 1           1-st display            pprint putty rect           e 0           mem Blit -x -y w x h y  screen  0 0       if 0           2-nd display          mem Blit 0  0  x y  screen  width 0       e 0       if 0           3-rd display          mem Blit 0  0  width  height  screen  width 2 0       bmp SaveFile os path join home  image  s jpg    i   wx BITMAP TYPE JPEG          print  i      sleep 0 2  del mem   Details are here

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