Get windows idle time without keyboard or mouse input

mkannan · January 10, 2017, 6:25am

Hi all,

Please refer below procedure to get windows idle time that refers time without any keyboard or mouse interruption


from ctypes import Structure, windll, c_uint, sizeof, byref

class LASTINPUTINFO(Structure):
    _fields_ = [
        ('cbSize', c_uint),
        ('dwTime', c_uint),
    ]

def get_idle_duration():
    lastInputInfo = LASTINPUTINFO()
    lastInputInfo.cbSize = sizeof(lastInputInfo)
    windll.user32.GetLastInputInfo(byref(lastInputInfo))
    millis = windll.kernel32.GetTickCount() - lastInputInfo.dwTime
    return int(millis / 1000.0)


seconds=get_idle_duration()

m, s = divmod(seconds, 60)
h, m = divmod(m, 60)
d,h =divmod(h,24)
print("DAYS:HOURS:MIN:SEC")
print "%02d:%02d:%02d:%02d" % (d, h, m, s)

Sample output would be,

20170110-Get-windows-idle-time-without-keyboard-or-mouse-input-event.json (1.09 KB)