Command Line Screen Capture

Under Mac and Linux it is pretty easy to do a screen capture using the terminal. On Windows, the story is a little different. I could not find an easy way to do this (please let me know if you know of any solution that ships with Windows).

Command line screen capture can be very handy if, for instance, you would like to setup a script to take a snapshot of your desktop at every 30 seconds - we did this for a recent project in order to record the process of modeling a specific scene in 3D using Maya.

Since I could not find a free solution, I decided to write a small program in C# that does exactly this.

screencap.exe is a small and simple program that can be called on the command with one argument: screencap.exe filename.png. It then records a snapshot of your desktop to the file filename.png.

Download link is provided below. Use it at your own risk.

download screencap