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Screenshot Taking program in Python for Mac OS X.

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I want to write my own Screenshot Taking program in Python for Mac OS X.

Example : Whenever Command + Shift + 3 is pressed ==> whatever is there on the screen, should be grabbed / captured, and should be stored on my local with my own desired path, and name should automatically given as SnapshotX.. as in Snapshot1, Snapshot2, etc...

The same goes with Command + Shift + 4 ==> the only difference is that, it allows you to select a particular area to be captured / grabbed.

Command + Shift + 5 ==> This one is a little bit tricky which I am looking for. This shortcut doesn't exist. I want to create one of my own, where it would grab the entire webpage's screenshot which I am currently working on, and store the name as the webpage's link.

posted Oct 19, 2013 by Seema Siddique

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3 Answers

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Sounds like a difficult thing to write from scratch. Can you find something off-the-shelf that takes a snapshot of your current window, and then maybe add some interaction with the web browser? Otherwise, you're poking around with screenshotting directly, which is very much a solved problem.

Also, please read this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython

answer Oct 19, 2013 by Sonu Jindal
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I'm not sure how much what you want to do differs from what OS X already provides out of the box but perhaps this reference can give you some ideas:

http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

answer Oct 19, 2013 by Sanketi Garg
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Command-Shift-3 takes a screenshot of the whole screen and saves it as a file on the desktop.

Command-Control-Shift-3: takes a screenshot of the whole screen and saves it to the clipboard.

For other options (such as taking a screenshot of a window or a specific region on the screen), see
http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X

I wonder what this has to do with Python though.

answer Oct 22, 2013 by Meenal Mishra
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