Does anybody know if it's possible to press the play button on a music website using Python? What I'm trying to do is make an alarm clock script that plays a random playlist on a music site.
Here and here are similar questions (I think), although I don't know if what I'm using applies to this. I'm trying to use Grooveshark.
The first linked question's answer, to use Selenium, is probably your best bet. You can write your code in Python, and any other way of interfacing with a website as complex as Grooveshark will probably not be easy. There is an API (http://developers.grooveshark.com) but for what you want Selenium is probably the easiest approach.
just use tkinter button widget and use pygame musicplayer, it works very well.
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I got my script to work with typing out keys, but for some reason, those keys do not work in Minecraft. Although, typing Minecraft messages in the chat are no problem. I'm trying to get python to move my own character.
In my script, I tried to use pyautogui, the mouse in Minecraft works but not keys such as w, a, s, or d. Is there another import or way to hold down a key that actually works in Minecraft?
def hold_W (hold_time):
start = time.time()
while time.time() - start < hold_time:
pyautogui.press('w')
Doing this and calling it worked for writing texts, but for some reason does not register in Minecraft? Any help?
If you used "Automate the Boring Stuff With Python" to learn this stuff, the book states that pyautogui cannot be used on video games on Windows. I am not sure how to fix this, but the link to the book is here: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter20/
Also, you can go to the documentation of pyautogui here: https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to see if the games feature has been added. My greatest regrets that I cannot solve this problem for you. If it makes you feel better, pyautogui does work on .io games.
Different video games have different ways of detecting keystrokes, so to find a thing that will work on all video games you might need to get your hands dirty and do some stuff I have no clue how to do.
I have a laser pointer that I'm using along with my webcam as a drawing tablet, but I'd like to use the extra buttons on it too. They seem to be bound to Page Up, Page Down, Escape, and Period. I can't seem to figure out a way to get the input(which is handled like it's a keyboard) without any windows being selected.
I've tried serial and pyusb, but I've had issues with both of those. I got it to work with Pygame, but as far as I know, you can't receive input without the window it creates being selected. Any ideas?
You could try making a python key-logger. However, it would be much easier to just use Pygame.
CodeSurgeon answered me in a comment.
Looks like there are a lot of youtube tutorials on the subject, surprisingly. This one shows a cross-platform approach using the pynput module, while this one looks to be using a windows-specific approach (pyhook and pythoncom). Can't vouch for either of these as I just found them through some searching, and I am sure there are others as well.
I found that pynput works for me. (Windows 10/Python 3.4)
I am using MATLAB and SIMULINK and there is something missing there that is driving me crazy, but the question is not MATLAB-related.
At a certain point I have a window like that:
I would like to have the SELECT ALL button. I don't know why, but since a lot of years I am asking this feature to MathWorks but they don't implement it.
Anyway, I decided to do a workaround by myself.
I want to make a small script in Python which detect the text 'Tunable' and after it clicks automatically on ALL the checkboxes.
Is it possible to do it in Python ?
I found a solution to my problem.
If you are interested you can look at it in this video:
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I am happy to share ideas and to know your opinion.
I need to create a widget that will play two synchronized (H264) videos, among other things. I have never done any GUI stuff before and would like to accomplish my goal with the least amount of work. I have two questions:
Do Tkinter or Qt have functionality that allows me play videos synchronously?
I have looked at both Tkinter and Qt and it seems there is no easy, built in, way to do so. But, then again, I am pretty unfamiliar with these systems so I could have overlooked something.
I'm not sure on the synchronous video side, but this related post may help understand more about potential limitation regarding video in tkinter
Way to play video files in Tkinter?
Hope this a helpful...gl
Qt lets you play videos using the QVideoWidget and QMediaPlayer. There's an example player for PyQt.
For Tkinter there is no default widget for playing videos. You can play videos with tkinter, but this is not using one of the tkinter widgets and a bit hackish. See this answer on stackoverflow
Synchronizing is tricky with videos, but possible. You would have to set the videos to start at the exact same time, with the same frame rate.
I am thinking of writing a python program that runs in the background and can inspect user's GUI events.
My requirements is very simple:
1) When user right click the mouse, it can show an option; and when this option is chosen, my program should know this event.
2) When user select a file and click some predefined key combination, my program should know this event.
What should I do? Is this a GUI program? I am also thinking that, this program maybe a daemon on the machine and can inspect the user's GUI event, but I am not sure how can I do this.
Thanks.
If you're talking about doing this stuff inside of a wxPython program, then it's all pretty simple. There's a PopupMenu widget for the first one and an AcceratorTable for the second one. If you're wanting to catch mouse and keyboard events outside of a wxPython program, then you have to go very low-level and hook into the OS itself, which means that there really isn't any good way to do it cross-platform. You'll probably want to look at ctypes and similar libraries for that sort of thing.
I've been researching this problem a bit and while I don't have a definite answer, I thought it would be good to share what I found.
First, according to the answers for this question, wxPython cannot track nor control the mouse position outside of the area controlled by the wxPython app. However, as we can see in the answers to this question, under certain circumstances it may be possible to create system-wide hot keys that wxPython can see (although we can also see that this is probably not the optimal solution).
So what will work for the OP? Well, build a cross platform application that does what the OP wants seems almost impossible so I will assume the OP is developing for MS Windows. Following the suggestions in those previous two questions, I looked into the PyWin32 API. It's a little hard to find documentation for it but this question offers some helpful links. A little more digging and I found this tutorial for system-wide hotkeys as well as the win32event.WaitForMultipleObjects and win32event.WaitForSingleObject methods which, if the OP can figure out the proper event, may be what the OP needs to catch menu clicks.
I know it's far from a complete answer but hopefully this can serve as a good jumping-off point for further research.