Robotgo

Golang Desktop Automation. Control the mouse, keyboard, bitmap and image, read the screen, process, Window Handle and global event listener.

RobotGo supports Mac, Windows, and Linux(X11); and robotgo supports arm64 and x86-amd64.

Docs

GoDoc
API Docs (Deprecated, no updated)

Binding:

ADB, packaging android adb API.

Robotn, binding JavaScript and other, support more language.

Requirements:

Now, Please make sure Golang, GCC is installed correctly before installing RobotGo.

ALL:

Golang

GCC

For Mac OS X:

Xcode Command Line Tools (And Privacy setting: #277 )

xcode-select --install

For Windows:

MinGW-w64 (Use recommended)

Or the other GCC (But you should compile the "libpng" with yourself when use the bitmap.)

For everything else:

GCC

X11 with the XTest extension (the Xtst library)


"Bitmap":

libpng (Just used by bitmap)

"Event":

xcb, xkb, libxkbcommon

"Clipboard":

xsel xclip

Ubuntu:

# gcc
sudo apt install gcc libc6-dev

# x11
sudo apt install libx11-dev xorg-dev libxtst-dev

# Bitmap
sudo apt install libpng++-dev

# Hook
sudo apt install xcb libxcb-xkb-dev x11-xkb-utils libx11-xcb-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxkbcommon-dev

# Clipboard
sudo apt install xsel xclip

Fedora:

sudo dnf install libXtst-devel 

# Bitmap
sudo dnf install libpng-devel

# Hook
sudo dnf install libxkbcommon-devel libxkbcommon-x11-devel xorg-x11-xkb-utils-devel

# Clipboard
sudo dnf install xsel xclip

Installation:

With Go module support (Go 1.11+), just import:

import "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"

Otherwise, to install the robotgo package, run the command:

go get github.com/go-vgo/robotgo

png.h: No such file or directory? Please see issues/47.

Update:

go get -u github.com/go-vgo/robotgo

Note go1.10.x C file compilation cache problem, golang #24355. go mod vendor problem, golang #26366.

Examples:

Mouse

package main

import (
  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
)

func main() {
  robotgo.MouseSleep = 100

  robotgo.ScrollMouse(10, "up")
  robotgo.ScrollMouse(20, "right")

  robotgo.Scroll(0, -10)
  robotgo.Scroll(100, 0)

  robotgo.MilliSleep(100)
  robotgo.ScrollSmooth(-10, 6)
  // robotgo.ScrollRelative(10, -100)

  robotgo.Move(10, 20)
  robotgo.MoveRelative(0, -10)
  robotgo.DragSmooth(10, 10)

  robotgo.Click("wheelRight")
  robotgo.Click("left", true)
  robotgo.MoveSmooth(100, 200, 1.0, 10.0)

  robotgo.Toggle("left")
  robotgo.Toggle("left", "up")
}

Keyboard

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
)

func main() {
  robotgo.TypeStr("Hello World")
  robotgo.TypeStr("だんしゃり", 0, 1)
  // robotgo.TypeStr("テストする")

  robotgo.TypeStr("Hi, Seattle space needle, Golden gate bridge, One world trade center.")
  robotgo.TypeStr("Hi galaxy, hi stars, hi MT.Rainier, hi sea. こんにちは世界.")
  robotgo.Sleep(1)

  // ustr := uint32(robotgo.CharCodeAt("Test", 0))
  // robotgo.UnicodeType(ustr)

  robotgo.KeySleep = 100
  robotgo.KeyTap("enter")
  // robotgo.TypeStr("en")
  robotgo.KeyTap("i", "alt", "cmd")

  arr := []string{"alt", "cmd"}
  robotgo.KeyTap("i", arr)

  robotgo.MilliSleep(100)
  robotgo.KeyToggle("a")
  robotgo.KeyToggle("a", "up")

  robotgo.WriteAll("Test")
  text, err := robotgo.ReadAll()
  if err == nil {
    fmt.Println(text)
  }
}

Screen

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
  "github.com/vcaesar/imgo"
)

func main() {
  x, y := robotgo.GetMousePos()
  fmt.Println("pos: ", x, y)

  color := robotgo.GetPixelColor(100, 200)
  fmt.Println("color---- ", color)

  sx, sy := robotgo.GetScreenSize()
  fmt.Println("get screen size: ", sx, sy)

  bit := robotgo.CaptureScreen(10, 10, 30, 30)
  defer robotgo.FreeBitmap(bit)

  img := robotgo.ToImage(bit)
  imgo.Save("test.png", img)

  num := robotgo.DisplaysNum()
  for i := 0; i < num; i++ {
    robotgo.DisplayID = i
    img1 := robotgo.CaptureImg()
    path1 := "save_" + strconv.Itoa(i)
    robotgo.Save(img1, path1+".png")
    robotgo.SaveJpeg(img1, path1+".jpeg", 50)

    img2 := robotgo.CaptureImg(10, 10, 20, 20)
    robotgo.Save(img2, "test_"+strconv.Itoa(i)+".png")
  }
}

Bitmap

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
  "github.com/vcaesar/bitmap"
)

func main() {
  bit := robotgo.CaptureScreen(10, 20, 30, 40)
  // use `defer robotgo.FreeBitmap(bit)` to free the bitmap
  defer robotgo.FreeBitmap(bit)

  fmt.Println("bitmap...", bit)
  img := robotgo.ToImage(bit)
  // robotgo.SavePng(img, "test_1.png")
  robotgo.Save(img, "test_1.png")

  bit2 := robotgo.ToCBitmap(robotgo.ImgToBitmap(img))
  fx, fy := bitmap.Find(bit2)
  fmt.Println("FindBitmap------ ", fx, fy)
  robotgo.Move(fx, fy)

  arr := bitmap.FindAll(bit2)
  fmt.Println("Find all bitmap: ", arr)

  fx, fy = bitmap.Find(bit)
  fmt.Println("FindBitmap------ ", fx, fy)

  bitmap.Save(bit, "test.png")
}

OpenCV

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "math/rand"

  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
  "github.com/vcaesar/gcv"
  "github.com/vcaesar/bitmap"
)

func main() {
  opencv()
}

func opencv() {
  name := "test.png"
  name1 := "test_001.png"
  robotgo.SaveCapture(name1, 10, 10, 30, 30)
  robotgo.SaveCapture(name)

  fmt.Print("gcv find image: ")
  fmt.Println(gcv.FindImgFile(name1, name))
  fmt.Println(gcv.FindAllImgFile(name1, name))

  bit := bitmap.Open(name1)
  defer robotgo.FreeBitmap(bit)
  fmt.Print("find bitmap: ")
  fmt.Println(bitmap.Find(bit))

  // bit0 := robotgo.CaptureScreen()
  // img := robotgo.ToImage(bit0)
  // bit1 := robotgo.CaptureScreen(10, 10, 30, 30)
  // img1 := robotgo.ToImage(bit1)
  // defer robotgo.FreeBitmapArr(bit0, bit1)
  img := robotgo.CaptureImg()
  img1 := robotgo.CaptureImg(10, 10, 30, 30)

  fmt.Print("gcv find image: ")
  fmt.Println(gcv.FindImg(img1, img))
  fmt.Println()

  res := gcv.FindAllImg(img1, img)
  fmt.Println(res[0].TopLeft.Y, res[0].Rects.TopLeft.X, res)
  x, y := res[0].TopLeft.X, res[0].TopLeft.Y
  robotgo.Move(x, y-rand.Intn(5))
  robotgo.MilliSleep(100)
  robotgo.Click()

  res = gcv.FindAll(img1, img) // use find template and sift
  fmt.Println("find all: ", res)
  res1 := gcv.Find(img1, img)
  fmt.Println("find: ", res1)

  img2, _, _ := robotgo.DecodeImg("test_001.png")
  x, y = gcv.FindX(img2, img)
  fmt.Println(x, y)
}

Event

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  // "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
  hook "github.com/robotn/gohook"
)

func main() {
  add()
  low()
  event()
}

func add() {
  fmt.Println("--- Please press ctrl + shift + q to stop hook ---")
  hook.Register(hook.KeyDown, []string{"q", "ctrl", "shift"}, func(e hook.Event) {
    fmt.Println("ctrl-shift-q")
    hook.End()
  })

  fmt.Println("--- Please press w---")
  hook.Register(hook.KeyDown, []string{"w"}, func(e hook.Event) {
    fmt.Println("w")
  })

  s := hook.Start()
  <-hook.Process(s)
}

func low() {
	evChan := hook.Start()
	defer hook.End()

	for ev := range evChan {
		fmt.Println("hook: ", ev)
	}
}

func event() {
  ok := hook.AddEvents("q", "ctrl", "shift")
  if ok {
    fmt.Println("add events...")
  }

  keve := hook.AddEvent("k")
  if keve {
    fmt.Println("you press... ", "k")
  }

  mleft := hook.AddEvent("mleft")
  if mleft {
    fmt.Println("you press... ", "mouse left button")
  }
}

Window

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/go-vgo/robotgo"
)

func main() {
  fpid, err := robotgo.FindIds("Google")
  if err == nil {
    fmt.Println("pids... ", fpid)

    if len(fpid) > 0 {
      robotgo.TypeStr("Hi galaxy!", int(fpid[0]))
      robotgo.KeyTap("a", fpid[0], "cmd")

      robotgo.KeyToggle("a", fpid[0])
      robotgo.KeyToggle("a", fpid[0], "up")

      robotgo.ActivePID(fpid[0])

      robotgo.Kill(fpid[0])
    }
  }

  robotgo.ActiveName("chrome")

  isExist, err := robotgo.PidExists(100)
  if err == nil && isExist {
    fmt.Println("pid exists is", isExist)

    robotgo.Kill(100)
  }

  abool := robotgo.Alert("test", "robotgo")
  if abool {
 	  fmt.Println("ok@@@ ", "ok")
  }

  title := robotgo.GetTitle()
  fmt.Println("title@@@ ", title)
}

CrossCompiling

Windows64 to windows32

SET CGO_ENABLED=1
SET GOARCH=386
go build main.go

Other to windows

Install Requirements (Ubuntu, Just used by bitmap.):

sudo apt install gcc-multilib
sudo apt install gcc-mingw-w64
# fix err: zlib.h: No such file or directory
sudo apt install libz-mingw-w64-dev

Build the binary:

GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ go build -x ./

// CC=mingw-w64\x86_64-7.2.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe
// CXX=mingw-w64\x86_64-7.2.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin\g++.exe

Some discussions and questions, please see issues/228, issues/143.

Authors

The author is vz
Maintainers
Contributors

Plans

Refactor some C code to Go (such as x11, windows)
Better multiscreen support
Waylad supports
Update Window Handle
Try support Android and IOS

Contributors

See contributors page for full list of contributors.
See Contribution Guidelines.

License

Robotgo is primarily distributed under the terms of "both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0)", with portions covered by various BSD-like licenses.

See LICENSE-APACHE, LICENSE-MIT.

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README.md

Robotgo

Contents

Docs

Binding:

Requirements:

ALL:

For Mac OS X:

For Windows:

For everything else:

Ubuntu:

Fedora:

Installation:

Update:

Examples:

Mouse

Keyboard

Screen

Bitmap

OpenCV

Event

Window

CrossCompiling

Windows64 to windows32

Other to windows

Authors

Plans

Contributors

License

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Robotgo

Contents

Docs

Binding:

Requirements:

ALL:

For Mac OS X:

For Windows:

For everything else:

Ubuntu:

Fedora:

Installation:

Update:

CrossCompiling

Windows64 to windows32

Other to windows

Authors

Plans

Contributors

License