iPhone/iPod Touch: Timed/Delayed Screenshot
Erica Sadun provides a slew of command line applications for the OS X mobile operating system – my favorite being her series of screenshot applications.
I just have one problem: Theres no easy way to take a screenshot of an arbitrary screen directly from the device. (Unless you install the “Dock” launcher, which does not work for me)
I wrote the following two scripts to accomplish my task. From the terminal application you execute s.sh with a name for the screenshot:
You then have 10 seconds to exit the terminal, and navigate to the screen you want to take a picture of. After the screenshot has been taken and saved, a dialog will popup to tell you.
screenshot.sh
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sleep 10
cd ~/Media/
mkdir screenshots
cd screenshots
snap $1
doAlert “Screenshot taken and saved to ~/Media/screenshots/$1″
s.sh
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# 2007 – Nicholas Pike
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echo “A screenshot of your screen will be taken in 10 seconds. Leave the terminal and go to your desired screen now”
nohup /var/root/bin/screenshot.sh $1 2> /dev/null &
Both these scripts require EricasUtilities to be installed, and /var/root/bin to be on your path (otherwise the binaries in EricasUtilities wont work).
Save both scripts to /var/root/bin, chmod +x on both of them, and optionally rename s.sh to s for easier launching from the terminal.
All screenshots will be stored in ~/Media/screenshots (which will be created if it doesn’t already exist) – once you have the screenshot, you can use the fileToEmail utility included in EricasUtilities, or SendFile available via Installer.app
