Take Screenshot using Python | tkinter GUI | PyAutoGUI

 Take Screenshot 

In this article we are going to build a Screenshot Taker with the help of Tkinter (to build GUI),PyAutoGUI(perform the actual fuction).Using python it is very easy to take screenshot.PyAutoGUI tool provide the simplest method to capture the screen.

Tkinter :-

tkinter is a GUI library of python for building a Graphical Interface for users. However  there are alot of other packages that provide the GUI interface in python ,But tkinter is the most commonly used library.It provide the powerful interface to the Tk GUI  toolkit. In this article we are going to build a Screenshot taker with the help of Tkinter.

There are two methods to import tkinter module:

1.import tkinter

2.from tkinter import *

PyAutoGUI:-

PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI Python module for human being  to manage and control the mouse & keyboard via a python script .This python script enables the automation of tasks.

PyAutoGUI has many tools like:

1.simulating mouse movements, button clicks, and scrolling the mouse wheel.

2.taking screen shots

3.automating task

Installation:

PyAutoGUI is a platform independent , so it is fairly easy to install it on all the operating systems. You can install it by simple run the following command into your Command prompt and the installation will be done.

1.On Windows:-There is no dependency on windows to install it.Simply run the command that is given below:

pip install pyautogui

2.On Mac:-In Mac operating system you need to install two module first then you can install PyAutoGUI.Run the following commands.

 pip3 install pyobjc-core

 pip3 install pyobjc
 pip3 install pyautogui

3.On Linux:-For linux there is only a single dependency that is python-3 xlib. First install the it then install pyautogui. Follow the given below commands to install

pip3 install python3-xlib

pip3 install pyautogui

Here is the simplest method to take screen shot using python library PyAutoGUI.

Steps:

import tkinter as tk

import pyautogui as pg 

root=tk.Tk()

root.title("Screenshot GUI")

root.geometry('500x500')

def screenshot():

    screenshot=pg.screenshot()

    screenshot.save("C:/screenshot.png")

capture=tk.Button(root,text="Capture",command=screenshot)

capture.grid(row=3,column=3)

root.mainloop()

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