I am learning from Al Sweigart's you tube video for automating the boring stuff. I got to the part of taking screenshots. He didn't really explain in his video so I tested things out. I found that it takes screenshots of the whole desktop but I don't know where they go. I can only find it when do a whole computer search and I don't know how to put it into a folder from there.
Basically I am asking how I can store the images and find those images taken by the pyautogui.screenshot() function. I am not planning on using this for anything at the moment I just want to know how to do it. I went to the pyautogui website and I didn't find anything on where to find and how to save the screenshots. Thank you in advance for your time!
Here's the link to the documentation on saving screenshots in pyautogui:
https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui#user-content-screenshot-functions
The screenshot function returns a PIL.Image. You can save that to a file with it's save method.
import pyautogui
im1 = pyautogui.screenshot()
im1.save(r"c:\path\to\my\screenshot.png")
You can also pass the path where you'd like to save the file in the screenshot method call:
import pyautogui
pyautogui.screenshot(r"c:\path\to\my\screenshot1.png")
Did you followed the pyautogui doc ,
It clearly says :
PyAutoGUI can take screenshots, save them to files, and locate images within the screen ,
Calling screenshot() will return an Image object , It can be called in different ways :
>>> im1 = pyautogui.screenshot() # return an image object
>>> im2 = pyautogui.screenshot('my_screenshot.png') # image name will be as per parameter
>>> im3 = pyautogui.screenshot(region=(0,0, 300, 400)) # mention spedific region to get the screenshot
All return a image object which can be later consumed / saved as per requirement :
>>> im1.size() # will return a dimension of image as a tuple
>>> im2.save("<imagepath where you wish to save your image >") # save the image
>>> im.getpixel((100, 200)) # return color value of the point mentioned
Hope this help :)
