Take a screenshot of your display every n seconds and remove duplicate with similarity checking ( run with admin mode )

main.py

from datetime import datetime
import time , os 
import pyautogui 

import pygetwindow as gw
from skimage import io, metrics

import os

# Define a function to compare images using SSIM
def are_images_similar(image_path1, image_path2):
    image1 = io.imread(image_path1)
    image2 = io.imread(image_path2)

    print(type(image1))
    print(type(image2))
    print(image2[0])
    # Get image dimensions
    height1, width1, _ = image1.shape
    height2, width2, _ = image2.shape

    if height1 != height2 or width1 != width2:
        print("Image dimensions are not the same.")
        return False
    # Calculate SSIM
    ssim_score = metrics.structural_similarity(image1, image2, full=True, channel_axis=2)[0]
    print(f"Structural similarity: {ssim_score}")
    return ssim_score >= 0.997

interval = 1
save_directory = "./screenshots/"
prev_path = ""
while True:
    try:
        os.system('cls')

        timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
        screenshot_path = os.path.join(save_directory, f"sc_{timestamp}.png")
        
        print(f'Taking screenshot with {screenshot_path}')
        screenshot = pyautogui.screenshot()
        screenshot.save(screenshot_path)

        active = gw.getActiveWindowTitle()
        open_windows = gw.getAllWindows()

        print(f"\n\nReport for {timestamp}")

        if prev_path :
            # Check if the screenshots are similar
            if are_images_similar(prev_path, screenshot_path):
                print("Similar screenshots Removing a duplicate")
                os.remove(screenshot_path)
            else:
                print("Different screenshots , Keeping both ... ")
                prev_path = screenshot_path
        else :
            prev_path = screenshot_path

        time.sleep(interval)

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Screenshot script stopped.")
        break