Controlling mouse with Python

Question

How does one control the mouse cursor in Python, i.e. move it to certain position and click, under Windows?

Answer 1

Try with the PyAutoGUI module. It's multiplatform.

pip install pyautogui

And so:

import pyautogui
pyautogui.click(100, 100)

It also has other features:

import pyautogui
pyautogui.moveTo(100, 150)
pyautogui.moveRel(0, 10)  # move mouse 10 pixels down
pyautogui.dragTo(100, 150)
pyautogui.dragRel(0, 10)  # drag mouse 10 pixels down

This is much easier than going through all the win32con stuff.

Answer 2

Quick and dirty function that'll left click wherever clicks times on Windows 7 using the ctypes library. No downloads required.

import ctypes

SetCursorPos = ctypes.windll.user32.SetCursorPos
mouse_event = ctypes.windll.user32.mouse_event

def left_click(x, y, clicks=1):
  SetCursorPos(x, y)
  for i in xrange(clicks):
   mouse_event(2, 0, 0, 0, 0)
   mouse_event(4, 0, 0, 0, 0)

left_click(200, 200) #left clicks at 200, 200 on your screen. Was able to send 10k clicks instantly.

Answer 3

The accepted answer worked for me but it was unstable (sometimes clicks wouldn't regsiter) so I added an additional MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP . Then it was working reliably

import win32api, win32con
def click(x,y):
    win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))
    win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,x,y,0,0) 
    win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,x,y,0,0)
    win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,x,y,0,0)
click(10,10)