#🔒 Need help with a 'basic' graphics analyser or something

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cerulean burrow
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Hello, I'm really, really new to python and I wanted to make a script that would click on a text on screen as practice, but I don't even know where to start, can anyone help me with it or point me to some tutorials? English is my second language so I dont even know what to google here.

atomic pantherBOT
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median lotus
cerulean burrow
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Basically, I'm trying to get python to look at my screen, look for and click on a specific text when it detects it.

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That's pretty much it

median lotus
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A specific text regardless of where it sees it? Or are you trying to click a link on a website specifically?

cerulean burrow
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Either or. In this case, the location of the text is set. There are 2 locations, and it randomly switches between these 2 spots

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As embarrassing as it is to say, I'm pretty slow in the head, so I don't even know how to get python to look at these 2 spots, look for a couple words and click on them myself.

median lotus
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well, to be fair this is a pretty complicated & difficult task

cerulean burrow
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Oh

median lotus
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The general approach would be to take a screen shot of your screen, use some OCR to detect text, then command the mouse to click where the text was found

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For the first two items, you might want to use a library called OpenCV

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however

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if it's just a website you're automating, there are a couple better ways

cerulean burrow
median lotus
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Can you share what this text is and where it comes from?

cerulean burrow
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Voscreen. It's a language learning site where it plays a movie clip, offers 2 dialogue options (Subtitle on - subtitles off) then offers 2 more dialogue options, which are translations of the clip's dialogue

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What I wish to do is first click on subtitles off (It's position is always static.), then look for a desired text and click on it. Then reload the page, this part I was planning on manually doing

median lotus
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for that part you can use a library called Selenium

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You can have it open a browser window (using chrome or whatever other browser), but it's able to interact with it programmatically

cerulean burrow
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Do you have a tutorial on it that you know of?

median lotus
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no, you'll just have to search it up "python selenium tutorial"

cerulean burrow
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Gotcha

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Thanks!

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This is definitely way better than bruteforcing my way

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