Making an autoclicker in python?

January 8, 2023

I have designed this simple autoclicker in python using the pynput library

import time
import threading
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
from pynput.keyboard import Listener, KeyCode

TOGGLE_KEY = KeyCode(char="t")
activated = False
mouse = Controller()

def on_press(key):
    global activated
    if key == TOGGLE_KEY:
        activated = not activated

        while activated:
            mouse.click(Button.left, 1)
            time.sleep(0.01)


listner = Listener(on_press=on_press)
listner.start()

input()

This code activates a listner and when the user presses any key it calls the on_press function which checks if the button is equal to ‘t’ then it inverts the property of activated and starts the while loop

I tried the above code and it worked but when I pressed ‘t’ again the autoclicker did not switch off

>Solution :

I believe you are stuck in your while activated: loop. Pushing T again does not make the function run again unless the first function has stopped. A simple solution would be to put the click event in its own thread.

import time
import threading
from pynput.mouse import Button, Controller
from pynput.keyboard import Listener, KeyCode

TOGGLE_KEY = KeyCode(char="t")
activated = False
mouse = Controller()

def on_press(key):
    global activated
    if key == TOGGLE_KEY:
        activated = not activated

def doClick():
    global activated
    while True:
        if activated:
            mouse.click(Button.left, 1)
            time.sleep(0.01)

threading.Thread(target = doClick).start()

listner = Listener(on_press=on_press)
listner.start()

input()