A Pythonic interface to macOS

Control your whole Mac from Python: apps, notifications, input, screen, camera, microphone, OCR, media, Keychain, Touch ID and more, with one import and zero dependencies.

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import macos

macos.notify("Build finished", title="CI")
macos.say("Done!")

macos.clipboard.copy("hello")
macos.appearance.is_dark()                      # True
macos.screenshot("screen.png")

macos.apps.open("Safari")                       # App(name='Safari', ...)
macos.keychain.get("my-app", "alice")           # 's3cret'

macos.power.battery()                           # Battery(percent=87, charging=True, ...)
macos.shortcuts.run("Translate", input="Hola")  # 'Hello'
macos.finder.trash("old.log")                   # moved to the Trash

What's inside

Area	Topics
Apps & Automation	Apps, Browser, Clipboard, Events, Hotkeys, Keyboard, Maps, Menu Bar, Mouse, Music, Schedule, Shortcuts, Windows
User Interaction	Dialogs, Notifications, Sound, Speech
Files & Documents	Audio Files, Documents, Finder, Images, PDF, Spotlight, Video
Intelligence	Language, Vision
Security	Authentication, Keychain
System & Hardware	Appearance, Audio, Bluetooth, Camera, Defaults, Dock, Network, Power, Printer, Screen, Settings, System, Time Machine, Trackpad, Volume

Install

pip install pymacos

The package is installed as pymacos and imported as macos.

Requires macOS and Python 3.9+.

Why

A notification from plain Python means AppleScript inside a string, which breaks as soon as the message contains a quote:

subprocess.run(["osascript", "-e", 'display notification "Build finished" with title "CI"'])

With pymacos:

macos.notify("Build finished", title="CI")

Across the whole package:

• No dependencies: no PyObjC, nothing to compile.
• Plain, typed functions that return Python objects.
• Any text is safe: your text is never pasted into shell or AppleScript source.
• Clear errors when macOS is missing a permission, instead of silent failures.

See Why pymacos? for a longer comparison.

Documentation

The full guide and API reference are at macos.readthedocs.io.

License

Released under the MIT License — free for personal and commercial use.

_{Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. macOS is a trademark of Apple Inc.}