moses-palmer/pynput

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

pynput is a Python library for controlling and monitoring input devices such as the mouse and keyboard. It provides a cross-platform API to send virtual input events and listen to user input.

Use cases

• automate mouse clicks and keyboard typing in python
• listen to global keyboard shortcuts in a python script
• simulate user input for gui testing
• build a macro or hotkey tool
• monitor mouse movement across platforms

When to choose

• you need cross-platform mouse/keyboard control from python
• you want to both send and listen to input events
• you need a pure-python library without heavy dependencies

When to avoid

• you need image-based gui automation like screen matching (use pyautogui)
• you are building browser-based automation (use selenium or playwright)
• you need low-level driver-level input injection

Facets

library · maturity stable

workflow-automation developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform python cross-platform windows input-devices mouse-control keyboard-control input-monitoring gui-automation automation linux macos

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