Controlling mouse with Python

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How does one control the mouse cursor in Python  i e  move it to certain position and click  under Windows

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You can use win32api or ctypes module to use win32 apis for controlling mouse or any gui  Here is a fun example to control mouse using win32api   import win32api import time import math  for i in range 500       x   int 500 math sin math pi i 100  500      y   int 500 math cos i  100      win32api SetCursorPos  x y       time sleep  01    A click using ctypes   import ctypes    see http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms646260 VS 85  aspx for details ctypes windll user32 SetCursorPos 100  20  ctypes windll user32 mouse event 2  0  0  0 0    left down ctypes windll user32 mouse event 4  0  0  0 0    left up

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Tested on WinXP  Python 2 6  3 x also tested  after installing pywin32  pywin32-214 win32-py2 6 exe in my case    import win32api  win32con def click x y       win32api SetCursorPos  x y       win32api mouse event win32con MOUSEEVENTF LEFTDOWN x y 0 0      win32api mouse event win32con MOUSEEVENTF LEFTUP x y 0 0  click 10 10

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Linux  from Xlib import X  display d   display Display   s   d screen   root   s root root warp pointer 300 300  d sync     Source  Python mouse move in 5 lines of code  Linux only

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As of 2021  you can use mouse  import mouse mouse move  quot 500 quot    quot 500 quot   mouse left click     Features  Global event hook on all mice devices  captures events regardless of focus   Listen and sends mouse events  Works with Windows and Linux  requires sudo   Pure Python  no C modules to be compiled  Zero dependencies  Trivial to install and deploy  just copy the files  Python 2 and 3 Includes high level API  e g  record and play   Events automatically captured in separate thread  doesn t block main program  Tested and documented

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Pynput is the best solution I have found  both for Windows and for Mac  Super easy to program  and works very well   For example   from pynput mouse import Button  Controller  mouse   Controller      Read pointer position print  The current pointer position is  0   format      mouse position      Set pointer position mouse position    10  20  print  Now we have moved it to  0   format      mouse position      Move pointer relative to current position mouse move 5  -5     Press and release mouse press Button left  mouse release Button left     Double click  this is different from pressing and releasing   twice on Mac OSX mouse click Button left  2     Scroll two steps down mouse scroll 0  2

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If you want to move the mouse  use this   import pyautogui pyautogui moveTo x y    If you want to click  use this   import pyautogui pyautogui click x y    If you don t have pyautogui installed  you must have python attached to CMD  Go to CMD and write  pip install pyautogui  This will install pyautogui for Python 2 x   For Python 3 x  you will probably have to use pip3 install pyautogui or python3 -m pip install pyautogui

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Another alternative would be mouse library  I personally use it as it is relatively simple and cross-platform   Here is how you can use it   import mouse   move 100 right and 100 down with a duration of 0 5 seconds mouse move 100  100  absolute False  duration 0 5    left click mouse click  left     right click mouse click  right     Here is the source  How to Control your Mouse in Python

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If you need to work with games  As explained in this post https   www learncodebygaming com blog pyautogui-not-working-use-directinput  some games like Minecraft or Fortnite have their own way of registering mouse   keyboard events  The way to control mouse and keyboard events is by using the brand new PyDirectInput library  Their github repository is https   github com learncodebygaming pydirectinput  and has a lot of great information  Here s a quick code that does a mouse loop  and clicks  import pydirectinput    pip install pydirectinput   pydirectinput moveTo 0  500  pydirectinput click

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Check out the cross platform PyMouse  https   github com pepijndevos PyMouse

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Quick and dirty function that ll left click wherever clicks times on Windows 7 using the ctypes library  No downloads required   import ctypes  SetCursorPos   ctypes windll user32 SetCursorPos mouse event   ctypes windll user32 mouse event  def left click x  y  clicks 1     SetCursorPos x  y    for i in xrange clicks      mouse event 2  0  0  0  0     mouse event 4  0  0  0  0   left click 200  200   left clicks at 200  200 on your screen  Was able to send 10k clicks instantly

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Try with the PyAutoGUI module  It s multiplatform    pip install pyautogui   And so   import pyautogui pyautogui click 100  100    It also has other features   import pyautogui pyautogui moveTo 100  150  pyautogui moveRel 0  10     move mouse 10 pixels down pyautogui dragTo 100  150  pyautogui dragRel 0  10     drag mouse 10 pixels down   This is much easier than going through all the win32con stuff

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Another option is to use the cross-platform AutoPy package  This package has two different options for moving the mouse   This code snippet will instantly move the cursor to position  200 200    import autopy autopy mouse move 200 200    If you instead want the cursor to visibly move across the screen to a given location  you can use the smooth move command   import autopy autopy mouse smooth move 200 200

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Move Mouse Randomly On Screen It will move the mouse randomly on screen according to your screen resolution  check code below  Install pip install pyautogui using this command  import pyautogui import time import random as rnd   calculate height and width of screen w  h   list pyautogui size    0   list pyautogui size    1   while True      time sleep 1       move mouse at random location in screen  change it to your preference     pyautogui moveTo rnd randrange 0  w                         rnd randrange 0  h     duration   0 1

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very easy  1- install pakage    pip install mouse   2- add library to project    import mouse   3- use it for example    mouse right click     in this url describe all function that you can use it    https   github com boppreh mouse

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The accepted answer worked for me but it was unstable  sometimes clicks wouldn t regsiter  so I added an additional MOUSEEVENTF LEFTUP   Then it was working  reliably  import win32api  win32con def click x y       win32api SetCursorPos  x y       win32api mouse event win32con MOUSEEVENTF LEFTUP x y 0 0       win32api mouse event win32con MOUSEEVENTF LEFTDOWN x y 0 0      win32api mouse event win32con MOUSEEVENTF LEFTUP x y 0 0  click 10 10

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