Reading colours ??

[kalyubave92]

Hi, im quite new to python ( I know the basics and all that) but I was wondering if it was possible to somehow use python to read a colour on the screen and detect what colour is showing or show the rgb format? E.g a blue image shows on the screen and the program can detect and print the values Blue=(0,0,255) sorry if I’m being a bit unclear, I’m not the greatest at python or do I know what I’m doing XD.

[SwissProgrammer]

Here are some options.

This is a quick reference not a complete program.

If you mean "read a colour on the screen" as reading a color from some other program, then have you considered a screen capture of that area? Then chose a point on the screen capture to analyze for rgb. Then compare that rgb to the rgb that you are interested in.

Example:
In the following, set the timer for your system to allow for the screenshot to complete before saving to a file.

import pyautogui, time
time.sleep(7)
 
screenshot = pyautogui.screenshot()
screenshot.save("isitblue.png")

Now that you have a saved copy of what you are analyzing, you can directly check outside of your program to see that you grabbed the right image. Use the following or similar:

#Load and show an image with Pillow
from PIL import Image

#Load the image
img = Image.open('isitblue.png')

#verify that it is in RBG format
print(img.mode)
#the result should be "RGB"

Also,

Python PIL (Python Imaging Library ) and getpixel() Method

getpixel() Returns the pixel (as a single) at x, y.

# Importing Image from PIL package  
from PIL import Image 
  
# creating an image object 
mypng = Image.open(r"C:\isitblue.png") 
mypixelcheck = mypng.load() 
cordinate = x, y = 10, 10
  
# using getpixel method 
print (mypng.getpixel(cordinate));

[Catarryna]

This is a good color to read this font.

[SioSio]

Includes Python's GUI automation module PyAutoGui.
To get it, enter the following command

pip install pyautogui

The code gets the color of the mouse position.
Move the mouse to the position where you want to get the color and press the Enter key.

import pyautogui as gui
import sys

print('Ctrl+C to exit')

try:
    while True:
       inp=input("Place the cursor on the part where you want to get the color and press the Enter key.\n")
       x,y = gui.position()
       rgb = gui.pixel(x,y)
       print('RGB=',rgb)

       # Convert to HTML color code
       R = 140
       G = 180
       B = 250
       color_code = '#{}{}{}'.format(hex(R), hex(G), hex(B))
       HTML_color_code = color_code.replace('0x', '')
       print('HTML=',HTML_color_code)

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print('\nStop')
    sys.exit()