The PIL.ImageGrab Module

(New in 1.1.3) The ImageGrab module can be used to copy the contents of the screen to a PIL image memory.

The current version works on Windows only.

Module Contents

grab(bbox=None) [#]

(New in 1.1.3) Take a snapshot of the screen. The pixels inside the bounding box are returned as an "RGB" image. If the bounding box is omitted, the entire screen is copied.

bbox
What region to copy. Default is the entire screen.
Returns:
An image

grabclipboard() [#]

(New in 1.1.4) Take a snapshot of the clipboard image, if any.

Returns:
An image, a list of filenames, or None if the clipboard does not contain image data or filenames. Note that if a list is returned, the filenames may not represent image files.