Taking screenshots with Python

Screenshots allow you to capture exactly what's on your screen to share with others or save for future purposes. Python provides different modules for capturing screenshots. Here, we will be looking at 3 modules that let you take screenshots.

• pyscreenshot 
• pyautogui
• Pillow

Using pyscreenshot 

Installation

pip install pyscreenshot 

pip install Pillow

Usage

import pyscreenshot as ps

img = ps.grab()

img.save('screenshot1.png')

Using pyautogui

Installation

pip install pyautogui

Usage

import pyautogui

img = pyautogui.screenshot()

img.save('screenshot2.png')

Using Pillow

Installation

pip install Pillow

Usage

from PIL import ImageGrab

img = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(0,0,900,900))

img.save('screenshot3.png')

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