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Python 3 pygments Script to Take Screenshot of Source Code and Export to PNG Image
Jun 3, 2025
Get the full source code of application here:
https://codingshiksha.com/python/python-3-pygments-script-to-take-screenshot-of-source-code-and-export-to-png-image/
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you a Python
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package which will take the screenshot
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of your source code and export this into
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a image file So let's suppose you have
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some kind of a coding uh source code
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file that you need to share with your
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friends or any sort of blog then you
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just need to take the screenshot So this
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Python script will help in that scenario
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So as you can see we are passing this
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uh this is actually the Python script
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and once I run this Python script we can
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pass any sort of source code It can be
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Python it can be JavaScript it can be C
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C++ So let me run this Python
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script So as soon as I run the Python
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script here you just need to provide the
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path of the source code file that you
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have Let me pass this
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file app 3.Y It's a Python file and then
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just provide the image file which will
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get
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created So now if you see code image
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save
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to so your image has been successfully
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created If I try to open this you will
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see now this is your actual image file
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You can embed this inside any block So
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it contains these line numbers It
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contains the syntax highlighting Your
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Python script has been successfully
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exported to an image
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file and try to open this You will see
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it will look something like this This is
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a simple PNG
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image with syntax highlighting
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everything So there is a package here
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inside Python which you can
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actually use it It's called as pi Gmens
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This is actually the package here It's a
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syntax highlighting package written in
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Python So the command is simple You
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simply install this by executing this
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command So after that you just need
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to you also need one more package which
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will be pillow which will be a image
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processing module So simply install this
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command as well So to install this
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package and after that you just need to
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create a simple Python script So let me
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show you step by step how to get started
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So the first thing you need to do you
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need to import all the packages which
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will be
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necessary like this So from
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this pygm package you need to import the
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highlight
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class So in this way you can import
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everything After
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that you will specify
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this So after this we will simply
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say we will ask the user to provide all
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the arguments here So they will provide
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the source code file and then followed
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by the image file So in this way you can
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use this script So we are getting all
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these two information from the user So
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now we just need to define this custom
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function which will convert this source
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code to a image file So here we are
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specifying this argument So now we just
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need to define this function which will
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be code file to
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image and it will be receiving this uh
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file path and the
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output image path will be none So inside
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this function we will first of all check
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that if the file path is not
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created then we will print out that
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statement that your source code file is
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not existing
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So after that we will open the file that
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you requested to export to image using
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the open function and read the file by
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using this function file do
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read and then inside this try accept
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block we will initialize this uh library
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which will take the
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screenshot and then we We will be using
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the formatter syntax highlighting For
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that we will be initializing this image
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formatter class And inside this it takes
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some options such as which font name you
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want to use for the screenshot if you
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want the line numbers or not Everything
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you can control
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here If you don't want the line numbers
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you can put false here And then you can
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control which image should be created So
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here we are specifying it needs to be a
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PNG image the style everything you can
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control line padding everything So after
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that after you specify these options
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then we can simply create the
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image using the
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highlight class we pass the code we pass
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the lexer and we pass the formatting
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options After that we simply can save
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the image as a PNG
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file by using the open
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function
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So like this after that we can save this
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image by using the save function like
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this
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So I have given the script in the
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description of the video guys If you
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want the full script the link is given
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in the description So once it's
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completed you can actually run the
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script
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So you can see the file will be
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created and let's suppose I change this
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uh options here If you don't want the
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line number let me put here
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false And once again run this you will
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see the line numbers will not be
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there So now you can see the line
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numbers are successfully removed And
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here you can actually get all the styles
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here It basically provides multiple
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themes You can check their
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documentation
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So it has various themes So it basic
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Monokai is a basic theme but you can
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even change that as well You can change
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the padding options Let me change it to
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five And once again run this You will
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see now it will have more
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space like this So the overall script is
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given in the description So thank you
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very much for watching this video and
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