Capturing screenshots with Python in Windows and Linux

Question

Is there any python library which can get print screenshot on both linux and windows? Any help will be appreciated.

most likely for not searching google and/or stack overflow. in less than 5 seconds I found this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69645/take-a-screenshot-via-a-python-script-linux and that is just one of many — Brian, Mar 21 '12 at 12:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '12 at 12:49

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The library Castro can be used for your cause.

Here is a sample code from the documentation

from castro import Castro
c = Castro()
c.start()
# Do something awesome!
c.stop()

answered Mar 21 '12 at 12:49

Zain Khan

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I looked in Castro and it is nice due to its simplicity! thanks. I don't want to use gtk though because I wonder how it will work on windows ( I am scared by its not-native nature to other platform than linux for GUI. I use wxpython for GUI) – Jack_of_All_Trades Mar 21 '12 at 12:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

I have googled a bit and saw this on a forumn.

import gtk.gdk

w = gtk.gdk.get_default_root_window()
sz = w.get_size()
print "The size of the window is %d x %d" % sz
pb = gtk.gdk.Pixbuf(gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB,False,8,sz[0],sz[1])
pb = pb.get_from_drawable(w,w.get_colormap(),0,0,0,0,sz[0],sz[1])
if (pb != None):
    pb.save("screenshot.png","png")
    print "Screenshot saved to screenshot.png."
else:
    print "Unable to get the screenshot."

The link to the stackoverflow answer is this

Capturing screenshots with Python in Windows and Linux

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