screenshot

December 6, 2017

Screenshot is a simple python script that has evolved over time. It started out as a shell script which called import -window root screenshot.png and has evolved into a full featured application.

Github page - https://github.com/sigmonsays/screenshot/blob/master/README.md

The point of this post is to demonstrate how to setup screenshot and how to use it to achieve a few things

Installation

git clone https://github.com/sigmonsays/screenshot.git
sudo apt-get install -y xclip imagemagick
cd screenshot
sudo pip install .

Configuration

Edit ~/.screenshot/config.ini

[screenshot] use_clipboard = yes clipboard_method = s3 capture_method = imagemagick

[s3] enabled = yes bucket = my_bucket access_key = XXXX secret_key = XXXX

Flag summary

  Usage: screenshot [options]

  Options:
    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -c FILE, --config=FILE
                          config file
    -v, --verbose         
    -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
                          set logging level [info]
    -s SUMMARY, --summary=SUMMARY
                          optional summary of picture
    -u UPLOADERS, --uploaders=UPLOADERS
                          enable specific uploaders
    -f FILENAME, --filename=FILENAME
                          use this file (or http address) instead of capturing

Usage

screenshot whatever

This allows you to select a region of your screen and then uploads it

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