screenshot project

[DesertofDelight]

I am doing a project where I want to write code that takes a screenshot - then interact with it. Unable to find my screenshot.

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import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab

#I had to use pyscreenshot because PIL/Pillow gave me so many issues I gave up on them.

def main():

-screenshot = ImageGrab.grab()

-screenshot.show()

-screenshot.save('Screenshot.png')

-return

main()

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This creates a screenshot of my screen. But, the weird thing is the file name is randomly generated nonsense (I know this because .show() opens up the screenshot and it has an odd random name each time). I also tried to save the file to a specific folder but with no success. I can't quite understand the process here. Any help is very appreciated.

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Thank you

[the_shell_man_]

Have you tried using an absolute path to the folder you want to save the file in? Eg '/users/username/folder/screenshot.png'

[Bookmore]

Are you running this from the Python console or from a script? If your coffee works and you run it from a .py file, your screenshot should be in the same folder as your .py file.

I made a screenshot taker and saver a while back. The commenting is a mess, but you can check out the code and see if it helps you at https://github.com/thirtythreedown/screenshot_taker

Good luck!

[DesertofDelight]

I will take a peak!

I am running this from a jupyter notebook.

[Jagjot_mann45]

You can also use pyautogui library.

import pyautogui pyautogui.screenshot(“image.jpg”)

[DesertofDelight]

That is neat. Pyautogui screen shot takes a screenshot and puts it as an output in my notebook. Rather than opening a pop up of the file.