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

Tested on WinXP, Python 2.6 (3.x also tested) after installing pywin32 (pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe in my case):

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

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.

You can use win32api or ctypes module to use win32 apis for controlling mouse or any gui

Here is a fun example to control mouse using win32api:

import win32api
import time
import math

for i in range(500):
    x = int(500+math.sin(math.pi*i/100)*500)
    y = int(500+math.cos(i)*100)
    win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))
    time.sleep(.01)

A click using ctypes:

import ctypes

# see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646260(VS.85).aspx for details
ctypes.windll.user32.SetCursorPos(100, 20)
ctypes.windll.user32.mouse_event(2, 0, 0, 0,0) # left down
ctypes.windll.user32.mouse_event(4, 0, 0, 0,0) # left up

Another option is to use the cross-platform AutoPy package. This package has two different options for moving the mouse:

This code snippet will instantly move the cursor to position (200,200):

import autopy
autopy.mouse.move(200,200)

If you instead want the cursor to visibly move across the screen to a given location, you can use the smooth_move command:

import autopy
autopy.mouse.smooth_move(200,200)

Check out the cross platform PyMouse: https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse/

Linux

from Xlib import X, display
d = display.Display()
s = d.screen()
root = s.root
root.warp_pointer(300,300)
d.sync()

Source: Python mouse move in 5 lines of code (Linux only).

Pynput is the best solution I have found, both for Windows and for Mac. Super easy to program, and works very well.

For example,

from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller

mouse = Controller()

# Read pointer position
print('The current pointer position is {0}'.format(
    mouse.position))

# Set pointer position
mouse.position = (10, 20)
print('Now we have moved it to {0}'.format(
    mouse.position))

# Move pointer relative to current position
mouse.move(5, -5)

# Press and release
mouse.press(Button.left)
mouse.release(Button.left)

# Double click; this is different from pressing and releasing
# twice on Mac OSX
mouse.click(Button.left, 2)

# Scroll two steps down
mouse.scroll(0, 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.

As of 2020, you can use mouse:

import mouse
mouse.move("500", "500")
mouse.left_click()

Features

• Global event hook on all mice devices (captures events regardless of focus).
• Listen and sends mouse events.
• Works with Windows and Linux (requires sudo).
• Pure Python, no C modules to be compiled.
• Zero dependencies. Trivial to install and deploy, just copy the files.
• Python 2 and 3
• Includes high level API (e.g. record and play).
• Events automatically captured in separate thread, doesn’t block main program.
• Tested and documented.

If you want to move the mouse, use this:

import pyautogui
pyautogui.moveTo(x,y)

If you want to click, use this:

import pyautogui
pyautogui.click(x,y)

If you don’t have pyautogui installed, you must have python attached to CMD. Go to CMD and write: pip install pyautogui

This will install pyautogui for Python 2.x.

For Python 3.x, you will probably have to use pip3 install pyautogui or python3 -m pip install pyautogui.

Another alternative would be mouse library, I personally use it as it is relatively simple and cross-platform.

Here is how you can use it:

import mouse
# move 100 right and 100 down with a duration of 0.5 seconds
mouse.move(100, 100, absolute=False, duration=0.5)
# left click
mouse.click('left')
# right click
mouse.click('right')

Here is the source: How to Control your Mouse in Python

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)

very easy 1- install pakage :

pip install mouse

2- add library to project :

import mouse

3- use it for example :

mouse.right_click()

in this url describe all function that you can use it :

https://github.com/boppreh/mouse