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Capture successive screen shots of a given screen region
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| #!/usr/bin/env python2 | |
| """ | |
| shots.py: capture successive screen shots of a given screen region | |
| """ | |
| __author__ = "joe di castro <joe@joedicastro.com>" | |
| __license__ = "MIT" | |
| __date__ = "2015-03-01" | |
| __version__ = "0.1" | |
| try: | |
| import os | |
| import re | |
| import sys | |
| import time | |
| import pyscreenshot as ImageGrab | |
| from argparse import ArgumentParser | |
| except ImportError: | |
| # Checks the installation of the necessary python modules | |
| print((os.linesep * 2).join(["An error found importing one module:", | |
| str(sys.exc_info()[1]), "You need to install it", "Stopping..."])) | |
| sys.exit(-2) | |
| def arguments(): | |
| """Defines the command line arguments for the script.""" | |
| main_desc = """Capture successive screen shots of a given screen region""" | |
| parser = ArgumentParser(description=main_desc) | |
| parser.add_argument("-p", "--path", dest="path", | |
| default=os.path.expanduser('~/animations'), nargs='?', | |
| help="The path to store the captures. If none " | |
| "is given, takes the ~/animations directory") | |
| parser.add_argument("-n", "--number", dest="number", | |
| default=20, nargs='?', | |
| help="The number of captures to take. Default=20") | |
| parser.add_argument("-i", "--interval", dest="interval", | |
| default=0.05, nargs='?', | |
| help="The time interval between " | |
| "captures. Default=0.05s") | |
| parser.add_argument("-r", "--region", dest="region", | |
| default="0, 17, 500, 500", nargs='?', | |
| help="The screen region to " | |
| "capture. Default=(0, 17, 500, 500)") | |
| parser.add_argument("-v", "--version", action="version", | |
| version="%(prog)s {0}".format(__version__), | |
| help="show program's version number and exit") | |
| return parser | |
| def main(): | |
| args = arguments().parse_args() | |
| # the screen region to capture | |
| region = tuple([int(i) for i in re.findall("(\d+)", args.region)]) | |
| for i in range(0, int(args.number)): | |
| filename = str(time.time()) + '.png' | |
| im = ImageGrab.grab(region) | |
| im.save(os.path.join(args.path, filename)) | |
| time.sleep(int(args.interval)) | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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