python - fastest way to click mouse

Question

I'm trying to make an auto click bot in python using pyautogui but this takes too much time (it runs in a loop, and xPos/yPos changes every time). What faster ways are there? Thanks for helping.

pyautogui.PAUSE = 0.001
pyautogui.click(xPos,yPos,button = 'left')

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '20 at 14:28

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You can use pynput:

from pynput import mouse
from pynput.mouse import Controller, Button
import time

mouse = Controller()
one = time.time_ns()
for i in range(1000):
    mouse.click(Button.left)

two = time.time_ns()

print(two-one)

With this setup im able to execute 1000 clicks in .53 seconds.

answered Dec 28 '20 at 14:28

Lukas Neumann

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thank you so much I increased(or decrease) the speed from 2 minutes to 10 seconds! – Itay Tsuk Dec 28 '20 at 16:27
@ItayTsuk If my anwser helped, you can upvote/accept it by clicking the checkmark under the arrows. – Lukas Neumann Dec 30 '20 at 12:58
it says that since I have less than 15 reputations I can't upvote, sorry – Itay Tsuk Dec 31 '20 at 09:50

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 17 '22 at 12:21

I'm testing three library: Pyautogui, Mouse and Pynput. Links to libs:

Pyautogui last upd. OCT 2021
Mouse last upd. APR 2021
Pynput last upd. OCT 2021

Below code and result:

PYAUTOGUI version:

import pyautogui
def click_pyautogui(x, y, button):
    pyautogui.moveTo(x, y)
    pyautogui.click(button=button)

MOUSE version:

import mouse
def click_mouse(x, y, button):
    mouse.move(x, y, absolute=True)
    mouse.click(button=button)

PYNPUT version:

from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
def click_pynput(x, y, button):
    mouse = Controller()
    mouse.position = (x, y)
    button = Button.left if button=='left' else Button.right
    mouse.click(Button.left)

wrapper:

def click(x, y, button):
    # pyautogui
    # click_pyautogui(x, y, button)

    # mouse
    # click_mouse(x, y, button)

    # pynput
    click_pynput(x, y, button)

import timeit
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(timeit.timeit("click(random.randrange(100), random.randrange(100), 'left')", number=100, globals=locals()))

RESULTS time for 100 cycles (average of 3, very small variations):

Pyautogui: 22.07 sec
Mouse : 0.16 sec
Pynput : 0.20 sec

Mouse look as fastest library!

Dj Frixz · Answer 3 · 2022-09-26T20:32:30.327

I can't comment so I have to make a post, I just wanted to say that @swasher 's speed test is incorrect.

from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
def click_pynput(x, y, button):
    mouse = Controller()
    mouse.position = (x, y)
    button = Button.left if button=='left' else Button.right
    mouse.click(Button.left)

This creates a new Controller object every time click_pynput is called, which is unnecessary and slow.

Creating the Controller object once before the function declaration is much better:

from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
_mouse = Controller()
def click_pynput(x, y, button):
    _mouse.position = (x, y)
    button = Button.left if button=='left' else Button.right
    _mouse.click(Button.left)

This in fact showed (on my pc) that pynput and mouse have the same speed.

Real RESULTS time for 100 cycles (average of 3, very small variations):

Mouse : 0.1317509999498725 sec
Pynput : 0.1323150999378413 sec

Also I tested just move speed and pyinput is slightly faster (1000000 iterations):

Mouse : 24.206686099991202 sec
Pynput : 20.718958700075746 sec

python - fastest way to click mouse

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