SCREENCAPTURE(1)            General Commands Manual           SCREENCAPTURE(1)

NAME

     screencapture – capture images from the screen and save them to a file or
     the clipboard

SYNOPSIS

     screencapture [-SWCTMPcimswxto] file

DESCRIPTION

     The screencapture utility is not very well documented to date.  A list of
     options follows.

     -c      Force screen capture to go to the clipboard.

     -b      Capture Touch Bar, only works in non-interactive modes.

     -C      Capture the cursor as well as the screen.  Only allowed in non-
             interactive modes.

     -d      Display errors to the user graphically.

     -i      Capture screen interactively, by selection or window.  The
             control key will cause the screenshot to go to the clipboard.
             The space key will toggle between mouse selection and window
             selection modes.  The escape key will cancel the interactive
             screenshot.

     -m      Only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set.

     -D      <display> Screen capture or record from the display specified. 1
             is main, 2 secondary, etc

     -o      In window capture mode, do not capture the shadow of the window.

     -p      Screen capture will use the default settings for capture. The
             files argument will be ignored.

     -M      Open the taken picture in a new Mail message.

     -P      Open the taken picture in a Preview window or QuickTime Player if
             video.

     -I      Open the taken picture in Messages.

     -B      <bundleid> Open in the app matching bundleid.

     -s      Only allow mouse selection mode.

     -S      In window capture mode, capture the screen instead of the window.

     -J      <style> Sets the starting style of interfactive capture
             "selection","window","video".

     -t      <format> Image format to create, default is png (other options
             include pdf, jpg, tiff and other formats).

     -T      <seconds> Take the picture after a delay of <seconds>, default is
             5.

     -a      Do not capture attached windows.

     -r      Do not add screen dpi meta data to captured file.

     -l      <windowid> Captures the window with windowid.

     -R      <rectangle> Capture rectangle using format x,y,width,height.

     -v      Capture video recording of the screen.

     -V      <seconds> Capture video recording of the screen for the specified
             seconds.

     -G      <id> Captures audio during a video recording using audio source
             specified by id.

     -g      Captures audio during a video recording using default input.

     -k      Show clicks in video recordings.

     -U      Show interactive toolbar in interactive mode.

     -u      Present UI after screencapture is complete. Files passed to
             commandline will be ignored.

     files   where to save the screen capture, 1 file per screen

BUGS

     Better documentation is needed for this utility.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

     To capture screen content while logged in via ssh, you must launch
     screencapture in the same mach bootstrap hierarchy as loginwindow:

     PID=pid of loginwindow
     sudo launchctl bsexec $PID screencapture [options]

HISTORY

     A screencapture utility first appeared in Mac OS X v10.2.

Mac OS                           June 16, 2004                          Mac OS