{"author_name":"dock","cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 11:02 am","epoch":1228492920,"text":"You could improve the naming convention, but running the following as a Ruby script will do:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 11:03 am","epoch":1228492980,"text":"Oh, and you&#8217;d probably want to sleep 60 seconds, not 1. <img src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/>","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Diragor","time":"December 5, 2008 11:53 am","epoch":1228495980,"text":"Or you could just use cron or launchd to run that screencapture command every minute.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 12:33 pm","epoch":1228498380,"text":"Ah, thanks for the responses&#8230; but I&#8217;m not really sure how to run Ruby scripts on the mac, nor how to run cron jobs on my mac. Sorry! o_o;","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Devon","time":"December 5, 2008 1:42 pm","epoch":1228502520,"text":"how about applescript?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 2:42 pm","epoch":1228506120,"text":"Ah, the applescript almost works&#8230; but only saves one screen! D: I can&#8217;t seem to figure out how to fix that.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 3:35 pm","epoch":1228509300,"text":"Or you could use Automator.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"December 5, 2008 3:43 pm","epoch":1228509780,"text":"Ah, I managed to find a program called InstantShot that works for me. I run two instances of it, and each one is set to take a screenshot of a different monitor once per minute.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1228487460,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74447","p_author":"dock","p_authorkey":"472","p_urlkey":"110279","p_title":"Screen capture on Mac?","p_cat":"LD #13 - Roads - 2008","p_event":"LD13","p_time":"1228487460","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"8","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"472","us_name":"dock","us_username":"dock","event_start":"1228435200","event_key":"92","event_name":"LD13"},"text":"<p>Quick question for any Mac users.<\/p>\n <p>Is there any software that can take a desktop screenshot at regular intervals (once per minute?) and save it to a folder?\u00a0 I would like to do a timelapse, but recording a video file over two days seems a bit too risky.<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/mac\/\" rel=\"tag\">mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/osx\/\" rel=\"tag\">osx<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 5th, 2008 9:31 am","title":"Screen capture on Mac?"}