screencap-stream

Take a screencap and return it as a stream. Today OSX. Tomorrow, CROSS PLATFORM!!!

Usage

streams

var screencap = require('screencap-stream')
screencap.createReadStream()
  .on('error', function(err) {
    process.stderr.write(err.toString())
    process.exit(-1)
  })
  .pipe(process.stdout)

callback

var screencap = require('screencap-stream')
screencap(function(err, readStream) {
  ...
})

screencap binary

Install it:

npm install -g screencap-stream

Take a screenshot (png) and output to stdout:

screencap

And now add it to ipfs:

screencap | ipfs add

And for a publish one-liner

echo "http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/"$(screencap | ipfs add -q)

ipfs-cap binary

Capture screenshots, publish them to IPFS, and copy the link to the clipboard.

Examples:

# default name based on date 
> ipfs-cap
http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmfV9gpmi9yT4J4fWWJH2xdrAUYbmn3JYZPWCN5hsMnA9A/screencap.2015-07-04T01:21:00Z.png
 
# name argument 
> ipfs-cap laser-raptor.png
http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdCcY49eXipYJQpZL2yAuu2Jv8QbddJE2Zub3cfwc3aPz/laser-raptor.png
 
# verbose 
> ipfs-cap -v hacking-too-much-time.png
capturing screen... QmRT4WfAYmt6EQmSWLNwjk9TU75ENV3JZum2PtGPq5V63R
constructing dir... Qmao3bK722MJ1eur89caxvJZ32FChyvRPi6QyBsibuKVEg
copying url to clipboard... copied
http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmao3bK722MJ1eur89caxvJZ32FChyvRPi6QyBsibuKVEg/hacking-too-much-time.png

Install it with:

npm install -g screencap-stream