osx-mouse-stream

Streaming mouse events for OS X. Built using osx-mouse module.

npm install osx-mouse-stream

Usage

By default the module exposes a readable stream of mouse input events.

var readableMouse = require('osx-mouse-stream');
var JSONStream = require('JSONStream');
 
readableMouse()
    .pipe(JSONStream.stringify(false))
    .pipe(process.stdout);

The above would output an object of the following format.

{
    type: 'move',
    time: 1431187372523,
    x: 0,
    y: 0
}

The osx-mouse module provides a full list of available event types.

It's also possible to create a writable stream which accepts the described object format, and executes the mouse commands using the macmouse module.

var writableMouse = require('osx-mouse-stream/writable');
var stream = writableMouse();
 
stream.write({
    type: 'move',
    time: 1431187372523,
    x: 0,
    y: 0
});

Command-line

The command-line tool can be used to record and replay mouse events.

mouse-stream > log

Pipe the file back into the cli.

cat log | mouse-stream --no-output

The --no-output and --no-input options disable the readable and writable part of the cli.

With airpaste it's possible to take control of the mouse on another OS X machine.

mouse-stream | airpaste

airpaste | mouse-stream --no-output