Keyboard & Mouse Simulation

This module wrapper keyboard and mouse events and send to system to have same behavior with physical keyboard and mouse.

You can use it in your automation scripts, or as easy-to-use API when you want to send keyboard and mouse events to different desktop environment (Windows & X11 & macOS) in same way.

Setup

Xlib and virtkey are the libraries used to send mouse_event and keyboard_event on Linux with X11. So you need to install python-xlib and python-virtkey following the command below here, before use the scripts:

sudo apt-get install python-xlib python-virtkey

Quartz is the library which will be used on macOS. You can use following command to install this python module:

pip install pyobjc-framework-Quartz

Use

Import the package file into your script, call the functions.

# Example

import kbsim.keyboard_simulation as kb_sim
import mssim.keyboard_simulation as ms_sim

def run():
    kb_sim.TypeKey("a")
    # use shortcut, only TypeKey() supported
    kb_sim.TypeKey("ctrl+alt+t")
    ms_sim.Click(200, 200, 1)