I finally got tired of doing screenshots by hand, so here is a snippet to automate it.

So for a long time I have taken all my screenshots by hand, until I finally got tired of doing that yesterday. I finally decided to automate that garbage.

I wanted to create a simple script to take a screenshot of chess positions, very simple. One additional thing I might want to add to this script as well would be uploading the images to imgur or something similar.

The actual code part is very small, but it is a huge relief to have written this code.

#!/usr/bin/python
from PIL import ImageGrab
from datetime import datetime
UPPERX = 510

UPPERY = 160

LOWERX = UPPERX+830

LOWERY = UPPERY+800
pic = ImageGrab.grab(bbox=(UPPERX,UPPERY,LOWERX,LOWERY))
timeNow = datetime.now()
filestr = f'{timeNow.year}{timeNow.month}{timeNow.day}-{timeNow.hour}{timeNow.minute}{timeNow.second}.png'

pic.save(filestr)

This small piece of code simply takes a screenshot, figuring out the exact coordinates was a bit trial and error. But having found the coordinates I can just use this script for all the screenshots If you copy this you might need to tweak it a little, I have a bar at the top of my window, and some empty pixels around the window.

Anyway just a quick snippet.