screencapture

screencapture is used to capture an image of the whole, or part of the screen, saving it into the current working directory.

$ screencapture screencap.png

Where to install

screencapture comes built with OSX’s command-line tools. If you don’t have them, you can install them via:

xcode-select --install

Synopsis

screencapture [options] [file]

Flags

Here are some cool flags that you could use within your program.

[-t format]

Example:

#screencapture will save the file as a jpg instead of png (default)
screencapture -t jpg screencap.jpg

[-R x,y,w,h]

Example:

#screencapture will capture a 500x500 rectange with (250,600) as the upper left hand corner
screencapture -R 250,600,500,500 screencap.jpg

[-T seconds]

Example:

#Take the picture after a delay of 10 seconds
screencapture -T 10

Below are some other cool flags and their descriptions, try them out!