How to take screenshots using python? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 18 Mar, 2024

Python is a widely used general-purpose language. It allows performing a variety of tasks. One of them can be taking a screenshot. It provides a module named

**pyautogui

which can be used to take the screenshot.

pyautogui

takes pictures as a PIL(python image library) which supports opening, manipulating, and saving many different image file formats.

Modules needed

• **Pillow: To install Pillow type the below command in the terminal.
  pip install Pillow
• **pyautogui: To install pyautogui type the below command in the terminal.
  pip install pyautogui

Below is the implementation.

Python3 ``

Python program to take

screenshots

import numpy as np import cv2 import pyautogui

take screenshot using pyautogui

image = pyautogui.screenshot()

this will return the image as PIL and

store in image

if you need to save the image as a

file, pass the path of the file as

an argument like this

image1 = pyautogui.screenshot("image1.png")

``

**Output: