Screen Scraping for Modern Applications?

[ljr2600]

Hello,

I'm very new to python and still familiarizing myself with the
language, sorry if the post seems moronic or simple.

For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern
computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do
this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware.

Thanks!

[KenAggie]

I just learned about a python library called BeautifulSoup in a thread
responding to my Southwest Airlines script that I wrote and posted on
the Python cookbook web site. I wrote my script using the provided
HTMLParser class. BeautifulSoup could have saved me some time perhaps.
Take a look. Feel free to browse my code for an example of how to use
HTMLParser for a moderately involved project.

BeautifulSoup link:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

My Southwest Boarding pass script link:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/496790

Enjoy.
- Ken
lj*****@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I'm very new to python and still familiarizing myself with the
language, sorry if the post seems moronic or simple.

For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern
computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do
this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware.

Thanks!

[Cameron Laird]

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<lj*****@gmail.com> wrote:

[ljr2600]

Cameron Laird wrote:

In article <11*********************@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
<lj*****@gmail.com> wrote:
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For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern
computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do
this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware.

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Oh, no.

Very hard. Very, very hard.

At least as you've expressed it here, this is an exceptionally
difficult task. What does "scrape" mean to you? Do you want
to reproduce the display remotely, or extract text, or some other
possibility? Does "modern computer" mean Windows to you?

Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen.
I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information.

Previously, I used Java, and it has a very handy built in class called
Robot that can, amongst other things, report the color of on screen
pixels. Thusly, I assumed the task could be accomplished reasonably
easily.

[Paul McGuire]

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Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen.
I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information.

I've used pywinauto to interact with a Flash animation panel, running within
an Internet Explorer browser. By "interact" I mean moving and clicking the
mouse, and capturing images, which can then be processed to access
individual pixels.

-- Paul

[Fredrik Lundh]

lj*****@gmail.com wrote:

Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen.
I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information.

import ImageGrab
im = ImageGrab.grab()
v = im.getpixel((x, y))

requires:

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

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[Daniel Nogradi]

> > Scrape means simply scraping pixel colors from locations on the screen.

I'll worry about assembling it into meaningful information.

import ImageGrab
im = ImageGrab.grab()
v = im.getpixel((x, y))

requires:

http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

</F>

##
# (New in 1.1.3) The <b>ImageGrab</b> module can be used to copy
# the contents of the screen to a PIL image memory.
# <p>
# The current version works on Windows only.</p>
#

How about doing the same on linux?

[Cameron Laird]

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