This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git:// |
#!/bin/bash | |
# AnyBar - https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar | |
function anybar { echo -n $1 | nc -4u -w0 localhost ${2:-1738}; } | |
function drip { | |
while sleep 5; do | |
wget -q --tries=10 --timeout=20 --spider http://google.com | |
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then | |
anybar green |
=Navigating= | |
visit('/projects') | |
visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
=Clicking links and buttons= | |
click_link('id-of-link') | |
click_link('Link Text') | |
click_button('Save') | |
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
click('Button Value') |
# Monitor HTTP requests being made from your machine with a one-liner.. | |
# Replace "en1" below with your network interface's name (usually en0 or en1) | |
sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*" | |
# OR.. to be able to use as "httpdump" from anywhere, drop this into ~/.bash_profile: | |
# (again replace "en1" with correct network interface name) | |
alias httpdump="sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n -s 0 -w - | grep -a -o -E "Host\: .*|GET \/.*"" | |
# All the above tested only on OS X. |
if [ -z $1 ] | |
then | |
if [ "$OS" == "Darwin" ] | |
then | |
echo "Updating…" | |
brew update | |
echo "Upgrading…" | |
brew upgrade | |
else | |
sudo apt-get update |
I say "animated gif" but in reality I think it's irresponsible to be serving "real" GIF files to people now. You should be serving gfy's, gifv's, webm, mp4s, whatever. They're a fraction of the filesize making it easier for you to deliver high fidelity, full color animation very quickly, especially on bad mobile connections. (But I suppose if you're just doing this for small audiences (like bug reporting), then LICEcap is a good solution).