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How to simulate key press in a specific chrome tab\window

So I want to simulate key presses in a SPECIFIC window\chrome tab. For eg, with pyautogui:

import pyautogui as py

while True:
    py.press("1")
    py.press("space")
    py.press("4")

This works when I'm on a tab, but if I go to another tab, it will simulate the key presses there. I want it to only simulate key presses in a specific tab, even if I'm in another tab. Is there a way to modify the above program to do this, or is there another pythonic way to achieve this?

Solution

  • Unfortunately, PyAutoGUI can't do this because it only blindly clicks on the screen at x, y coordinates. Unless you know the coordinates of the tab, you won't be able to put it in focus and send key presses to the window.

    I recommend a library like Selenium for doing GUI automation in web browsers.