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Capture an entire Slack Channel as screenshots
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set epoch to do shell script "perl -e 'print ~~time'" | |
set dir to "/tmp/" & epoch | |
do shell script "mkdir " & dir | |
tell application "Slack" to activate | |
tell application "System Events" | |
set counter to 1 | |
repeat 1000 times | |
delay 1 | |
set activeApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true | |
set winSize to size of window 1 of application process activeApp | |
set winPos to position of window 1 of application process activeApp | |
do shell script "screencapture -x -R" & item 1 of winPos & "," & item 2 of winPos & "," & item 1 of winSize & "," & item 2 of winSize & " " & dir & "/screenshot-" & counter & ".png" | |
try | |
do shell script "(! cmp -s " & dir & "/screenshot-" & counter & ".png " & dir & "/screenshot-" & (counter - 1) & ".png)" | |
on error | |
display dialog "Done!" | |
return | |
end try | |
set counter to counter + 1 | |
delay 1 | |
key code 116 | |
delay 1 | |
key code 125 | |
end repeat | |
end tell |
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You'll need to enable the ability for Script Editor to capture the screen and act as an assistive device in order for this to work.