Screenshot tool for repetitive screenshotting

Screenshot tool for repetitive screenshotting

My daily job used to entail doing an amazing amount of documentation with screen shots in HP Quality Center.

I became tired of manually renaming screen shots so I created a semi-automatic script to ease the process.

The script uses ImageMagick and Xorg tools.

The features are:

Bind the script to a key in your favorite window manager. Remember to enable emwh if using something like XMonad.

#!/bin/bash
#
#    DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
#                    Version 2, December 2004 
#
# Copyright (C) 2013 Rasmus Edgar < regj at arch-ed dot dk >  
#
# Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified 
# copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long 
# as the name is changed. 
#
#            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
#   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 
#
#  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

# Repetitive screenshot tool version 1.0
#
# -------------------------
# Updated version by Rasmus Edgar 2013.12
# Initial version by Rasmus Edgar 2012.05
#
# -------------------------


# Check for xdotool and imagemagick - exit with message if missing

if ! which xdotool > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "xdotool is a dependency. Install it." 
    exit 1
fi

if ! which convert > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "imagemagick is a dependency. Install it."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if ewmh is enabled

if ! xdotool getactivewindow > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "You need to enable emwh if running a tiling window manager or other wm without emwh."
    exit 1
fi

# Check for config file and create if needed with sane defaults then exit.
if [ ! -f "$HOME"/.repscrot ]; then
    echo "Creating repscrot config file $HOME/.repscrot. Adjust to your liking."
    echo "scrotfldrbase=$HOME/Desktop/scrots" > "$HOME"/.repscrot
    {
        echo "fontsize=14"
        echo "fillcolor=white"
        echo "whiteterm=yes"
        echo "subw=130"
        echo "subh=5"
        echo "jpgquality=100"
        echo "type=png"
        echo "fontpath=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf"
        echo "datestamp=yes" 
    } >> "$HOME"/.repscrot
fi

# Source config file
source "$HOME"/.repscrot


# Options for script below
OPTIND=1
while getopts "s:rn:ch" opt; do
    case "$opt" in
    s)
    echo "$OPTARG" > /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-srvid 
    exit 0
    ;;
    r)
    echo "Resetting counter."
    echo "0" > /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count  
    ;;
    n)
    echo "$OPTARG" > /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count
    ;;
    c)
    srvid=$(cat /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-srvid)
    scrotfldr="$scrotfldrbase"/"$srvid"
    echo "Cleaning ${scrotfldr} and tmp files."
    rm -f "$scrotfldr"/*."$type" ; rm -f /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-*
    exit 0
    ;;
    h)
    echo "Options are:
                -s: Set servername to label the scrots.
                -r: Reset counter for enumerating ${type}'s.
                -c: Delete ${type}'s in current serverfolder and reset counters and serverid.
                -n: Set counter preferred count.
                -h: This info. Check config options in ${HOME}/.repscrot for further customization."
    exit 0
    ;;
    esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

# Check if serverid is defined, use if yes
if [ -s /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-srvid ]; then
    srvid=$(cat /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-srvid)
    scrotfldr="$scrotfldrbase"/"$srvid"
else
    echo "Please set server id with -s option; repscrot -s <servername>"
    exit 1
fi


# convert functions for white or black terminal
conv_black () {
convert -pointsize "$fontsize" \\
        -font "$fontpath" \\
        -fill "$fillcolor" \\
        -draw "text ${xyplace} \"$(date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M"|sed -e ' s/\"/\\\"/g' )\"" \\
        "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count"."$type" "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count"."$type"
}

conv_white () {
convert -pointsize "$fontsize" \\
        -font "$fontpath" \\
        -fill "$fillcolor" \\
        -stroke black \\
        -strokewidth 1 \\
        -draw "text ${xyplace} \"$(date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M"|sed -e ' s/\"/\\\"/g' )\"" \\
        "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count"."$type" "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count"."$type"
}
    



# Create count file
if [ ! -f /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count ]; then
    echo "0" > /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count
fi

# Create Screenshot folder if not present
if [ ! -d "$scrotfldr" ];  then
    mkdir -p "$scrotfldr"
fi

# Get active window ID
activewinid=$(xdotool getactivewindow)

# Get geometry of window
geowinw=$(xdotool getwindowgeometry -shell "$activewinid" | awk -F"=" '/WIDTH/ {print $2}')
geowinh=$(xdotool getwindowgeometry -shell "$activewinid" | awk -F"=" '/HEIGHT/ {print $2}')

# Define X,Y placment of date text
xyplace="$((geowinw - subw)),$((geowinh - subh))"

# Get current count
count=$(cat /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count)

# Take screenshot
case "$type" in

    "jpg") import -quality "$jpgquality" -window "$activewinid" "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count".jpg 
        ;;

    "png") import -window "$activewinid" "$scrotfldr"/"$srvid"-"$count".png 
        ;;

        *) echo -e "Image type unknown. Supported types are png and jpg. Edit # Take screenshot section (line 129) in script to add new ones. Exiting."
       exit 1 
        ;;

esac

# Insert date stamp, if enabled, into screenshot use xyplace variable to adjust
# placement.
if [ "$datestamp" = yes ] ; then
    if [ "$whiteterm" = yes ] ; then
        conv_white
    else
    conv_black
    fi
fi

# Increment counter
echo $((count+1)) > /tmp/"$USER"-scrot-count

Github repo: https://github.com/RasmusEdgar/repscrot