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An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python using ctypes.
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Monthly downloads
2.3M
Weekly downloads
588.3K
GitHub stars
1.3K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
10.2.0
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
MIT License
Last Release
5 months ago
First Release
October 21, 2013
Total Releases
44
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,346,320
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,346,320
Stars
1,287
Stars per 1k downloads
0.55
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
84,045
Month daily avg
78,211
Momentum
+7.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
176 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
3.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
26
Monthly downloads
2,346,320
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
43
 
Issue Burden
31.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
165d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 35.3K
Windows 26.6K
macOS 3.0K

Python Versions

3.12
47.9% 29.0K
3.13
17.9% 10.8K
3.11
14.8% 8.9K
3.14
10.5% 6.4K
3.10
8.9% 5.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
37.0K
2. NL NL
2.9K
3. CN CN
2.4K
4. DE DE
1.8K
5. BR BR
1.7K
6. IE IE
1.6K
7. KR KR
1.2K
8. IN IN
1.2K
9. SG SG
1.2K
10. CA CA
1.1K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
16 optional dependencies
  • build==1.4.3[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • lxml==6.1.0[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • mypy==1.19.1[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • myst-parser==5.0.0[docs]
    python_version >= "3.12" and extra == "docs"
  • numpy==2.4.3[tests]
    (sys_platform == "linux" and python_version == "3.13") and extra == "tests"
  • pillow==12.1.1[tests]
    (sys_platform == "linux" and python_version == "3.13") and extra == "tests"
  • pytest==8.4.2[tests]
    python_version == "3.9" and extra == "tests"
  • pytest-cov==7.1.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • pytest-rerunfailures==16.0.1[tests]
    python_version == "3.9" and extra == "tests"
  • pyvirtualdisplay==3.0[tests]
    sys_platform == "linux" and extra == "tests"
  • ruff==0.15.11[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • shibuya==2026.1.9[docs]
    python_version >= "3.12" and extra == "docs"
  • sphinx==9.1.0[docs]
    python_version >= "3.12" and extra == "docs"
  • sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2[docs]
    python_version >= "3.12" and extra == "docs"
  • sphinx-new-tab-link==0.8.1[docs]
    python_version >= "3.12" and extra == "docs"
  • twine==6.2.0[dev]
    extra == "dev"

Used By

392
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Repository details

Forks
117
Issues
41
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
26
Open PRs
2
Archived
No