windows-adb-screen-capture

Capture screen from background windows and adb (Windows only)

pip install windows-adb-screen-capture



# If you get the following error during the installation

#       ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32.distutils.command'

#       [end of output]

# 

#   note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

# error: subprocess-exited-with-error

# 

# Try this:



pip install windows-adb-screen-capture --no-deps

pip install pywin32

pip install mss

pip install pandas

pip install opencv-python

Update 2022/11/10

Faster ADB screenshots

Update 2022/11/04

• Screenshots can now be resized for imshow

• Screenshots can be taken from the whole screen, and even multiple screens

• Bugfix: Closing and reopening imshow is working now

from windows_adb_screen_capture import ScreenShots

sc2 = ScreenShots()

sc2.set_resize_ratio(50).choose_monitor_for_screenshot(0).imshow_screenshot_monitor() #0 for all screens, 1 for screen 1, 2 for screen 2...

Example with BlueStacks (using adb)

Open bluestacks

$adb connect localhost:5735  #connect to adb from shell or however you want 

from windows_adb_screen_capture import ScreenShots

sc=ScreenShots(hwnd=None, adb_path=r"C:\ProgramData\adb\adb.exe", adb_serial='localhost:5735')

sc.imshow_adb(sleep_time=0.05, quit_key="e") #show captured screen

Edit screenshots before showing

import cv2

sc.enable_show_edited_images() 



for x in range(120): #while True for endless loop

    tmpscreenshot = sc.imget_adb() #get as numpy array

    tmpscreenshort_inverted = cv2.bitwise_not(tmpscreenshot) #just an example, do your editing here

    sc.show_edited_image(tmpscreenshort_inverted) #show the edited pic



sc.disable_show_edited_images() #back to normal screen capturing

Example with BlueStacks (using hwnd)

sc2 = ScreenShots()

sc2.find_window_with_regex('[bB]lue[sS]tacks.*')

sc2.imshow_hwnd(sleep_time=0.05, quit_key="q")  #show captured screen

#capture screen and edit before showing 

sc2.enable_show_edited_images()

for x in range(1000):   #while True for endless loop

    tmpscreenshot = sc2.imget_hwnd()

    tmpscreenshort_inverted = cv2.bitwise_not(tmpscreenshot) #do your editing here

    sc2.show_edited_image(tmpscreenshort_inverted) #show the edited pic

sc2.disable_show_edited_images()    #back to normal screen capturing

Get screenshots without showing windows

from windowcapture import ScreenShots

sc=ScreenShots(hwnd=None, adb_path=r"C:\ProgramData\adb\adb.exe", adb_serial='localhost:5735')

sc.imget_adb()

sc2 = ScreenShots()

sc2.find_window_with_regex('[bB]lue[sS]tacks.*')

sc2.imget_hwnd()