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September 6, 2024 18:15
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A small AppleScript to take a screenshot every 60 seconds. Saves images with the active application name and window title. Great for recording your workday for self-organization purposes.
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-- Thank you, jonobr1 https://gist.github.com/jonobr1/a91c166a94a65e64c9b7 | |
set dFolder to "~/Desktop/screencapture/" | |
do shell script ("mkdir -p " & dFolder) | |
global frontApp, frontAppName, windowTitle | |
set i to 0 | |
repeat 1440 times | |
tell application "System Events" | |
set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true | |
set frontAppName to name of frontApp | |
tell process frontAppName | |
tell (1st window whose value of attribute "AXMain" is true) | |
set windowTitle to value of attribute "AXTitle" | |
end tell | |
end tell | |
end tell | |
set frontAppName to frontAppName | |
set frontAppName to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of frontAppName & " | sed -e 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9]||g'" | |
set windowTitle to windowTitle | |
set windowTitle to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of windowTitle & " | sed -e 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9]||g'" | |
set dateString to do shell script "date +'%Y.%m.%d.%k%M'" | |
do shell script ("screencapture -D 1 " & dFolder & "Screenshot,\\ " & frontAppName & ",\\ " & windowTitle & ",\\ " & dateString & ".png") | |
delay 60 -- Wait for 60 seconds. | |
set i to i + 1 | |
end repeat |
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