Capture a screenshot of your local machine
npm install screenshot-desktop> Capture a screenshot of your local machine
* Multi/Cross Platform
* Linux: required ImageMagick apt-get install imagemagick
* OSX: No dependencies required!
* Windows: No dependencies required!
* Promise based API
* JPG output (by default)
$ npm install --save screenshot-desktop
``js
const screenshot = require('screenshot-desktop')
screenshot().then((img) => {
// img: Buffer filled with jpg goodness
// ...
}).catch((err) => {
// ...
})
`
`js
const screenshot = require('screenshot-desktop')
screenshot({format: 'png'}).then((img) => {
// img: Buffer filled with png goodness
// ...
}).catch((err) => {
// ...
})
`
`js`
screenshot.listDisplays().then((displays) => {
// displays: [{ id, name }, { id, name }]
screenshot({ screen: displays[displays.length - 1].id })
.then((img) => {
// img: Buffer of screenshot of the last display
});
})
`js`
screenshot.all().then((imgs) => {
// imgs: an array of Buffers, one for each screen
})
`js
screenshot({ filename: 'shot.jpg' }).then((imgPath) => {
// imgPath: absolute path to screenshot
// created in current working directory named shot.png
});
// absolute paths work too. so do pngs
screenshot({ filename: '/Users/brian/Desktop/demo.png' })
`
- filename Optional. Absolute or relative path to save output.format
- Optional. Valid values png|jpg. linuxLibrary
- Optional. Linux only. Valid values scrot|imagemagick`. Which library to use. Note that scrot does not support format or screen selection.
MIT © Ben Evans